Two Men, Starring at Something, from Andrea del Sarto
Andrea del Sarto (Florence 1486 - Florence 1530)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1862
Materials
Cardboard, Pencil, Tracing paper
Measurements
207 mm (H)127 mm (W)129 mm (W)
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872783
Summary
Pencil drawing on tracing paper (figure drawing); two men, in simple long coats with hoods, both starring in the same direction, one, on the right standing slightly before the other one, seen from three-quarters back view, the head turned into the profile looking to the left, has a simple stick, the other one, his body seen almost frontal, looking into the same direction on left side of the paper has a had under his slipped over hood.
Provenance
At Saltram by 1962 and given to NT as part of the endowment by Montagu Brownlow Parker (1878-1962), 5th Earl of Morley.
Marks and inscriptions
lower left, on the other side of the tracing paper, so it's seen as mirror-image; 'A. del Prato'
Makers and roles
Andrea del Sarto (Florence 1486 - Florence 1530), painter Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908), artist