Studies and Sketches for Figures: Standing Male Nude in Frontal View, Male Heads, Seated Monkey, and a Long-Beaked Bird (a Stork?) (recto); Figure Studies: Back View of Standing Male and Female Heads, a Flying Long-Beaked Bird, etc. (verso)
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- Title: Studies and Sketches for Figures: Standing Male Nude in Frontal View, Male Heads, Seated Monkey, and a Long-Beaked Bird (a Stork?) (recto); Figure Studies: Back View of Standing Male and Female Heads, a Flying Long-Beaked Bird, etc. (verso)
- Artist: Agostino Carracci (Italian, Bologna 1557–1602 Parma)
- Date: 1557–1602
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, over traces of leadpoint or soft black chalk (recto and verso)
- Dimensions: sheet: 10 11/16 x 7 3/4 in. (27.2 x 19.8 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971
- Object Number: 1975.131.16
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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