Academic study of hands and child's feet. Nineteenth century.

Academic study of hands and child's feet.
Nineteenth century.
Drawing on slightly bluish gray paper.
Anatomical studies are preparations for a painting or fresco with children or angels.
On the other side is a barely sketched anatomical study of a seated man.
There is a fold line trace in the middle.
The drawing comes from the legacy which mainly contained sketches and other works by the Turinese religious painter Luigi Reffo.
Resulting from the bequest of the Turinese artist Luigi Guglielmino.

The collection of sketches and preparatory drawings mainly included works by its master, Enrico Reffo (Turin, 1831-1917), one of the greatest representatives of Italian religious painting of the second half of the 19th century.
High quality drawing, which shows the continuity of the Italian and French academic drawing school, which continued to live in the workshop of the painter Reffo in Turin.