# Francesco Guardi Holding a Sword \(recto and verso\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PONTORMO, Jacopo]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Black chalk, 253 x 204 mm ## Commentary On both sides of this sheet are preliminary drawings for the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/p/pontormo/3/07halber.html'\)" href="/html/p/pontormo/3/07halber.html">portrait of the young Florentine Francesco Guardi</a> as a halberdier. Presumably Guardi himself posed for the more finished drawing on the recto, in which he holds the pommel of his sword but not the pole arm of the finished painting. ## Related artworks - [Adam and Eve at Work]() - [Alessandro de' Medici in Profile]() - [Alessandro de' Medici]() - [Alessandro de' Medici]() - [Anatomical study]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation]() - [Birth Tray \(back\)]() - [Birth Tray \(front\)]() - [Christ before Pilate]() - [Christ the Judge with the Creation of Eve]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()