Battista Franco

Half Figure of a Youth with Outstretched Left Arm and Bowed Head (recto); Two Women, One Holding a Vase, the Other a Book, and a Seated Man (verso)

1554–61

Dating

Date range

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Red chalk (recto); pen and brown ink (verso) (the ink of this latter study has bled through at lower left of recto)

Dimensions

7 5/16 x 12 9/16in. (18.6 x 31.9cm)

Collection no.

80.3.58

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Battista Franco. Half Figure of a Youth with Outstretched Left Arm and Bowed Head (recto); Two Women, One Holding a Vase, the Other a Book, and a Seated Man (verso). Battista Franco; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.