Seated Allegorical Female Figure Holding a Three-faced Effigy

Second half of the XVI century. Red chalk, Black chalk on yellow paper.
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The drawing is too stiff to be an original study for one of the two female allegories seated over a doorway in the wall decoration of the Sala Paolina, Castel Sant´Angelo, Rome.

Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci. A century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Chicago, Art Services International, 2008, p.353

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Seated Allegorical Female Figure Holding a Three-faced Effigy

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Inventory number: D001786
Author: Anonymous (Copy: Perino del Vaga)
Title: Seated Allegorical Female Figure Holding a Three-faced Effigy
Date: Second half of the XVI century
Technique: Red chalk; Black chalk
Support: Yellow paper
Dimension: Height: 218 mm; Width: 160 mm
Provenance: Bequest of Pedro Fernández Durán y Bernaldo de Quirós, 1931
Entry date: 1931

Bibliography +

Parma Armani, Elena, Perin del Vaga : L'anello mancante : studi sul manierismo, Sagep Editrice Genova, Génova, 1986, pp. 220-221/ lám. 263.

Museo Nacional del Prado, Catálogo de dibujos. Dibujos italianos del siglo XVI (por Nicholas Turner, con la colaboración de José Manuel Matilla), V, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2004, pp. 353.

Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci. A century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Art Services International, Chicago, 2008, pp. 353.

Other inventories +

Inv. Legado Pedro Fernández Durán, 1931. Núm. 765.

Update date: 02-06-2026 | Registry created on 28-04-2015

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