Sentence examples for chalk study from inspiring English sources

Another is a chalk study by Degas for his sculpture "Little Dancer".

So is a highly polished chalk study for the last of the three university pictures to be finished, "Jurisprudence".

There was a red chalk study by Watteau of two street boys who made a living by cleaning the mud off other people's shoes.

In his red chalk study of three nudes, which hangs to the left of "Holy Family," muscles are finely detailed, but facial features are mere dots.

(One of the figures of "Ugolino" quotes Géricault's "Raft of the Medusa," that other masterpiece of cannibalism, as seen here in a vigorous Carpeaux chalk study).

A black chalk study of a standing character's crossed legs again underlines Bronzino's intense concern about positioning in space, such as might be expected of a sculptor.

The chalk studies Degas made for these works, however, are exquisite.

Then there is the similarity between the left hand in "Antea" and those in two red chalk studies done in the early 1530s.

At the Frick, three swift chalk studies for a painting that is not in the show, "The Madonna of the Rose" (1529-30), develop the image of a hefty baby Jesus kicking his legs while supine on Mary's lap.

An ink-and-chalk study for a public sculpture by the Florentine painter Antonio del Pollaiuolo, dating from around 1480, is scarred with wrinkles, as if it had been crumpled into a ball and then smoothed out.

The pictures in the show, most of them black-chalk studies of heads and bodies, are working drawings, some of which have been squared up for transfer to paintings or tapestries.