Group of Figures Holding Book
by POLIDORO DA CARAVAGGIO, Red chalk, 173 x 277 mm
The Lombard heritage of Polidoro can be discerned in his landscape studies and many drawings of genre scenes, all executed in red chalk, a medium favoured by Leonardo and his Lombard followers. Polidoro took up a broad range of subjects in his genre drawings. The picture shows the verso of the sheet, on the recto being a schoolmistress with her pupil.