The subject remains unclear. The woman may have been intended to represent a sibyl, accompanied by a child. The composition is not unlike that of a Standing Venus in the British Museum, London (inv. no. 1922-2-11-79).
Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracc: a century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Virginia, Art Services International, 2008, p.275
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. 275.
Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracc: a century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Art Services International, Virginia, 2008, pp. 275.
Inv. Legado Pedro Fernández Durán, 1931. Núm. 554.
57. cinquantasette (de mano del coleccionista de la "doble numeración" cerca del margen derecho de la página, en paralelo con el margen derecho del dibujo)
Inscribed in pen and brown ink.
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