1700
oil
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A Lady Seen from Behind is a 1700 oil by Luca Carlevarijs, a Baroque work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
You see a woman from behind, wearing a white underdress with red details and a black skirt and hood. This painting is interesting because it's a quick sketch, likely done outdoors. It's part of a collection of sketches the artist used to plan bigger paintings. Check out the work of Carlevarijs, Luca, to see more of his sketches and paintings.
A woman is depicted from behind, wearing a white underdress with red detailing beneath a black overskirt and hooded mantle. This study is one of fifty-three sketches in an album by Carlevarijs, created as preparatory works for larger compositions. The figure is rendered in a quick, animated style typical of his *macchiette*, which he used to capture Venetian life before refining them into oil sketches. Though not directly matched to a finished painting, a similar figure appears in *The Piazza San Marco*, indicating Carlevarijs reused such studies in his vedute.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Luca Carlevarijs or Carlevaris (20 January 1663 – 12 February 1730) was an Italian painter and engraver working mainly in Venice.
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