Studies of Hands (recto); Sketch of a Child's Head (verso)
Details
- Author / creator
- Carletto Caliari (Italian, 1570–1596)
- Object type
- Drawing
- Date or period
- c. 1586
- Dimensions summary
- Sheet: 27.5 × 17.8 cm
- Paper / support
- Wove paper
About this object
The talented second-born son of Italian Renaissance painter Paolo Veronese, Carletto Caliari assisted his father in the final years of the celebrated artist’s life. Successful Venetian painting studios were run as workshops, with staffs of trained apprentices working under a master’s supervision to simultaneously execute a multitude of commissions. Drawings such as this study of expressive hand gestures were used as reference materials to ensure stylistic consistency within the shop.
Materials and technique
Charcoal (stumped in places) heightened with white chalk; black chalk with pen and brown ink
Signature and marks
(r) lower center, in brown ink: di Carlo Caliari / figlio di Paulo Verone. v) in brown ink “Amor di meritrice. Carletto Calliari è matto”, “Aabcdeg”, “Amor di meritrice” and in another hand, in brown ink, “Aqueta 163”
