COLOUR STUDY

Colour palette

#9F8768
#A48B6C
#968062
#9B8264
#8A7559
#A89173

Approximate colour proportions

#9F876820.9%
#A48B6C19.0%
#96806217.9%
#9B826415.9%
#8A755915.0%
#A8917311.3%

Estimated from six colour groups in the museum image, including visible paper or borders. Reproduction and lighting affect the result; these are image-area proportions, not pigment measurements.

Dudley P. Allen Fund · The Cleveland Museum of Art
Image licence: CC0 · Museum record & image source ↗

Italy · second half 1400s

Head of a Young Man

Filippino Lippi

Date: second half 1400s
Medium: point of brush and brown wash and brush and brown wash heightened with lead white
Dimensions: Sheet: 12 x 9.2 cm (4 3/4 x 3 5/8 in.); Secondary Support: 12 x 9.2 cm (4 3/4 x 3 5/8 in.); Tertiary Support: 17.3 x 14.4 cm (6 13/16 x 5 11/16 in.)
Country / context: Italy
Movement / tradition: European and American art
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Attribution / role: Museum attribution
Pathway: European and American art ↗

ABOUT THIS WORK

Head of a Young Man is a representative work in our Filippino Lippi guide. The catalogue records point of brush and brown wash and brush and brown wash heightened with lead white. Museum attribution. The linked artist guide places it alongside other works from the artist’s career.

Original educational overview · based on the linked museum record

Place in the artist’s career

The head study concentrates on an individual form; Saint Jerome develops a narrative through ink and wash; the painted tondo coordinates multiple figures within a circle. Compare wash-based tone with tempera-and-oil colour. The head study’s broad date and the other works’ overlap prevent a secure three-stage chronology.