1700
oil
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
A Study of a Man is a 1700 oil by Luca Carlevarijs, a Baroque work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
A man stands out in this dark oil sketch. He wears a brown costume and black apron, arms raised as if calling attention. His gesture feels urgent, like he’s about to step off the canvas. Carlevarijs made this as practice. He drew figures outside, then used them in bigger paintings. This one later shows up among vendors in *The Molo, Looking West*. It’s a quick study, but full of life. Watch how the light hits his sleeve. For more like this, check out works by Carlevarijs, Luca.
A study of a man in a brown costume and black apron, the figure raises his arms while gesturing toward the left. The drawing belongs to an album of fifty-three sketches by Carlevarijs, executed outdoors as preparatory studies for later compositions. A similar figure appears in the right foreground of *The Molo, Looking West*, a painting now in a private collection. The album reflects Carlevarijs’ practice of recording figures and objects in situ for reuse in his paintings and etchings of Venetian life between 1707 and 1726.
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Luca Carlevarijs or Carlevaris (20 January 1663 – 12 February 1730) was an Italian painter and engraver working mainly in Venice.
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