Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio
Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio belongs to the circle of Milanese Renaissance drawing, and his surviving sheets are prized for their refined, sculptural handling of the human head and figure. Silverpoint and leadpoint, heightened with white gouache on pale blue-gray prepared paper, define the technique of the single sheet held here — a study dated by the Metropolitan Museum to the very end of the fifteenth century. That one drawing, The Head of a Woman in Profile Facing Left, represents the collection's entire Boltraffio holding and gives a concentrated view of Lombard draftsmanship around 1490.
1 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
