SAVOLDO, Giovanni Girolamo
(b. 1480, Brescia, d. 1548, Venezia)

Head of a Man

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Black chalk heightened with white chalk on gray-green paper, 152 x 102 mm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Savoldo small and homogeneous graphic oeuvre comprises roughly fifteen drawings. Almost all are studies of heads (most drawn from life) in the characteristically Venetian medium of black chalk on blue paper, often heightened with white chalk. Some of them were recognized as preparatory studies.