Allegorical Figure of Purity with a Unicorn (recto); Study for Drapery (verso)

Provenance

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Artist: Baldassarre Franceschini (il Volterrano) (Italian, Volterra 1611–1690 Florence)
Date: 1650
Medium: Red chalk, highlighted with white chalk, on thick beige paper (recto); study for drapery in red chalk (verso)
Dimensions: 11 3/4 x 8 9/16in. (29.9 x 21.8cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1969
Accession no.: 69.115

Standing Draped Male Figure
Baldassarre Franceschini (il Volterrano)
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Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00018927
Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides
Baldassarre Franceschini (il Volterrano)
1612–56 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00019904
Half-Figure of an Angel Looking Upward (recto); Bust of a Man in Left Profile (verso)
Baldassarre Franceschini (il Volterrano)
1611–89 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00019905
Studies of Architectural Moldings, of the Virgin and Child with a Kneeling Saint, and of Two Angels Supporting Frames (recto); Studies for Architectural Mouldings (verso)
Baldassarre Franceschini (il Volterrano)
1611–89 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00019906

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.