Design for a Catafalque (recto); Female Saint Kneeling on Clouds under an Arch, and a Design for the Pinnacle of the Catafalque (verso)

Provenance

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Artist: Baldassarre Franceschini (il Volterrano) (Italian, Volterra 1611–1690 Florence)
Date: ca. 1669
Medium: Red chalk
Dimensions: 14 5/8 x 10 3/16in. (37.2 x 25.9cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1975
Accession no.: 1975.120

Standing Draped Male Figure
Baldassarre Franceschini (il Volterrano)
ca. 1550 · Drawing
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.