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)

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

Quick Overview

Artist: Battista Franco (Italian, Venice ca. 1510–1561 Venice)
Date: 1554–61
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)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880
Accession no.: 80.3.58

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