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The image shows a detailed drawing of a person's hands. Both hands are depicted in a close-up view, with the left hand appearing to hold or support something, while the right hand is relaxed and open. The drawing is done in red chalk on beige paper, showing shading and texture. The paper has slightly uneven edges. The drawing does not include any background context or additional objects, concentrating solely on the hands.
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The image shows a detailed drawing of a person's hands. Both hands are depicted in a close-up view, with the left hand appearing to hold or support something, while the right hand is relaxed and open. The drawing is done in red chalk on beige paper, showing shading and texture. The paper has slightly uneven edges. The drawing does not include any background context or additional objects, concentrating solely on the hands.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

A Hand Holding Empty Gloves

Bernardo Strozzi

Date
1630s
Medium
red chalk on beige oatmeal paper
Dimensions
sheet: 16.7 × 14.1 cm (6 9/16 × 5 9/16 in.) framed: 39.37 × 31.75 cm (15 1/2 × 12 1/2 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
1992.26.1
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Time span
1601 to 1650
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • Baroque
  • figure
  • Hand
  • Genoese-Venetian
Provenance

Zaccaria Sagredo [1653-1729], Venice; Maurice de Marignane, Paris; Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, Ltd.; purchased 1992 by NGA.

Inscription

by later hand, center verso in brown ink: P(rete).G(enovese) no.8; seventeenth/eighteenth century pen and brown ink verso of mount "P.G. no. 8"

NGA object ID 74819. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.