# Seated Bull

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## Artwork

- Artist: [CESARE da Sesto](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cesare-da-sesto-reb44ea17908231>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Red chalk, 124 x 175 mm

## Commentary

Like Leonardo, Cesare da Sesto drew animals. Employing the red chalk medium favoured by Leonardo for its capacity to achieve descriptive naturalism \(and for this reason also employed by Cesare in his numerous studies of arms, hands, and other anatomical details\), he produced unwaveringly direct graphic jottings of a bull, such as this drawing. The verso of the drawing has a sketch of a donkey, observed from life.

## Related artworks

- [Holy Family with St Catherine](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cesare-da-sesto-reb44ea17908231/holy-family-with-st-catherine-r367ee1a108420b>)
- [Leda and the Swan](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cesare-da-sesto-reb44ea17908231/leda-and-the-swan-r339880872d276b>)
- [Madonna and Child](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cesare-da-sesto-reb44ea17908231/madonna-and-child-r94b0c2b2dcead4>)
- [Madonna and Child with the Lamb of God](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cesare-da-sesto-reb44ea17908231/madonna-and-child-with-the-lamb-of-god-r0affcd42dd91e1>)
- [St Jerome](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cesare-da-sesto-reb44ea17908231/st-jerome-r69b39099459887>)
- [Studies of Feet](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cesare-da-sesto-reb44ea17908231/studies-of-feet-r2bcd53892fabbe>)
- [Study of a Bull](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cesare-da-sesto-reb44ea17908231/study-of-a-bull-raf6c3e0ffc69a2>)
- [Study of a Tree](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cesare-da-sesto-reb44ea17908231/study-of-a-tree-rb011316616d1b9>)

## Attribution

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