Sketch of Classical Sculpture of the Venus Pudica Type
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Object Details
- Artist
- Benozzo Gozzoli, Italian, ca. 1421-1497
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Female nude sculptural figure shown from the back. The right leg is shown down to the knee. The left leg is shorter in length and broken irregularly. A wedge, possibly a fragment of the sculpture, connects the leg with a square block. The reverse is not grounded.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- ca. 1475
- Accession Number
- 1901-39-2971
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- figures
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Silverpoint, heightened with brush and white gouache on laid paper mounted on laid paper
- Dimensions
- 17.2 × 8.4 cm (6 3/4 × 3 5/16 in.)
- made in
- Florence, Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1901-39-2971
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4062744c2-c381-4c51-b005-657383200501
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