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Man with a Spade
Not on view
Cesari executed this large and highly finished study, an early example of colored-chalks drawing, in preparartion of a figure featured in the background of his monumental scene with 'Romolus tracing the furrow of Rome', frescoed in the Conservator's Palace in Rome (now part of the Capitoline Museums). The fresco dates ca. 1638-40, toward the end of Cesari's long and succesful career. Originally published as work by Baglione, this sheet was recognized as by Cesari by Konrad Obehuber.
- Artist
- Giuseppe Cesari (Il Cavaliere d'Arpino)
- Title
- Man with a Spade
- Date
- 1630
- Object Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Red, pink and white chalks, over black chalk on paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 379 x 262 mm (14 15/16 x 10 5/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts
- Accession Number
- 1963.24.167