Standing Draped Male Figure; ca. 1550; Black chalk; highlighted with white; on blue-green paper; deckled edges. Glued onto secondary paper support; 15 5/16 x 10 3/8 in. (38.9 x 26.3 cm); max.; Drawings; Baldassarre Franceschini (il Volterrano) (Italian; Volterra 1611-1690 Florence); This animated study was drawn in preparation for the figure of Saint John the Evangelist in Franceschini's vault fresco of the Coronation of the Virgin in the Niccolini Chapel of Santa Croce; Florence; executed between 1652 and 1660