# Study of David and Two Figures [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CARNEVALE, Fra]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Drawing ## Commentary By the mid-fifteenth century it had become standard workshop practice in Florence to work from posed models; for the most part they were young, male studio assistants \(garzoni\), although studies of females are also occasionally encountered. Those drawings that survived are either in pen and ink with brown wash on white paper and have a predominantly linear quality, or are in the more pictorial technique of brown or gray wash heightened with white gouache on blue paper. Presumably Fra Carnevale executed drawings in the workshop of Filippo Lippi. The central figure in the drawing in Stockholm can be identified as David with the head of Goliath. It is clearly taken from a posed model making do with a chamber pot for Goliath's head. ## Related artworks - [A Woman and a Kneeling Monk]() - [Allegorical scene]() - [Heroic Figure against an Architectural Backdrop]() - [Madonna and Child]() - [Portrait of a Man]() - [St Francis]() - [St John the Baptist]() - [St Peter]() - [The Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [The Annunciation]() - [The Annunciation]() - [The Birth of the Virgin \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()