Woman wearing robes and a crown, carrying a scepter, accompanied by a child / Study for a composition of “Noli me tangere”
XVI century. Wash, Pencil, Grey ink, Grey-brown ink on yellow laid paper. Not on displayOn the modern museum matte is an unsigned attribution to Calvaert written in pencil, probably that of Walter Vitzthum. The drawing does indeed suggest a late sixteenth century Bolognese hand and the formal language is close to that of Calvaert himself.
Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci. A century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Chicago, Art Services International, 2008, p.225
