Schoolmistress with Her Pupils
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. This sheet shows a schoolmistress with her pupil (recto) while on the verso a group of figures holding books can be seen.