Study for a Figure of Saint Joseph; n.d.; Black chalk; highlighted with white gouache; on blue-gray paper; sheet: 7 5/16 x 6 11/16 in. (18.5 x 17 cm); Drawings; Bartolomeo Schedoni (Italian; Formigine 1578-1615 Parma); The figure in this quick; luminous sketch is seen from below in a tightly compressed foreshortening to conform with the eye of a spectator viewing the form from the ground. The sketch was preparatory for the upper portion of a very tall; monumental altarpiece (Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte; Naples); originally commissioned from Schedoni in 1607 for the Cathedral of Fanano near Modena