Figures Before Altar in Church (recto); Half-Length Male Nude, Looking Upward to Right (verso)

1600·Red chalk, heightened with lead white (discolored) (recto), and red chalk (verso), on ivory laid paper, tipped onto ivory laid paper·27.8 × 17.9 cm (11 × 7 1/16 in.)

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Catalogue

Year: 1600
Medium: Red chalk, heightened with lead white (discolored) (recto), and red chalk (verso), on ivory laid paper, tipped onto ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 27.8 × 17.9 cm (11 × 7 1/16 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Francesco Furini

Artist

Francesco Furini

Painting

Francesco Furini was an Italian Baroque painter, poet and priest. He was a leading painter in Florence in the second quarter of the 17th century and also worked in Rome. He was noted for both secular and religious subjects in which he used a sensual sfumato style, particularly in the many female nudes.

Florence, Italy

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