Black-Chalk Study for the Battle of Anghiari
A rapid preparatory sketch of a figure in violent movement
A rapid black-chalk drawing that the notebook's caption identifies as a preparatory study for the Battle of Anghiari. The soft, smudged strokes lay in a twisting form in violent motion, with sweeping curved lines above suggesting a mane, tail, or blown drapery and limbs sketched below. The library's oval stamp appears at the lower left of the leaf.
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Figure in violent motion sketched in chalk
A soft black-chalk study fills the leaf, its blurred contours describing a body caught in twisting, forceful movement. Sweeping arcs at the upper right read as flowing hair, tail, or drapery, with legs indicated toward the lower centre.