Title: Study for a Three-Quarter-Length Portrait of a Gentleman (recto), Study of a Clothed Figure and a Foot (verso)
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1605–67
Artist:  Mario Balassi 
Artist bio: Italian, Florence 1605–1667 Florence
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Red chalk, highlighted with white gouache, on red-washed paper (recto); black chalk studies of drapery which is washed in blue (verso)
Dimensions: 14-5/8 x 9-1/2 in.  (37.1 x 24.1 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Men, term: Portraits