Copy of a Statue of a Nude Woman Seen from the Rear
XVI century. Pencil, Grey-brown ink on yellow paper.Not on display
The model was presumably a bronze statuette, or a plaster cast from such a statuette. To gain proficiency in drawing the human figure artists frequently taught their pupils from such casts and models. On the reverse is another study of the same statue, seen from the same viewpoint, but drawn three-quarter length.
Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci. A century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Chicago, Art Services International, 2008, p.344
