Drapery Study of a Standing Figure Facing Right, in Profilelate 1460s–early 1470s
Andrea del Verrocchio painted this in the late 1460s–early 1470s, aged about 30. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago. More about this work
About this work
A work made of brush and opaque watercolor, on linen prepared with a gray ground, mounted to cream laid paper.
Description from the Art Institute of Chicago.
Andrea del Verrocchio painted this in the late 1460s–early 1470s, aged about 30. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.
How it was made
- Opaque watercolour
- Watercolour made opaque with white or chalk and laid in flat, even layers. Persian and Indian painters ground their colours from minerals, applied them with the finest brushes and burnished the finished page.
- Watercolour
- Pigment in gum arabic, thinned with water and laid in transparent washes. Nothing white is painted: the light is the paper showing through.
- Laid paper
- Handmade on a mould of close-set wires, which leave fine parallel lines you can see when the sheet is held to the light.
Andrea del Verrocchio
Italian, c. 1435–1488
Renaissance
European art from about 1400 to 1600, when painters rediscovered perspective and the classical past.
Rights and the museum’s record
Public domain. The Art Institute of Chicago has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.
- Object number
- 2020.255
- Credit
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Type
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
- See it on the museum’s site
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