PONTORMO, Jacopo

 

PONTORMO, Jacopo

(b. 1494, Pontormo, d. 1557, Firenze)

Two Seated Youth with a Book

c. 1525
Red chalk, 277 x 379 mm
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

This informal study of workshop assistants was probably done while Pontormo was working at Galuzzo.
The verso of the sheet contains a black chalk drawing of a head of a man wearing a hat.