Lot 6
6
THE PROPERTY OF A NOBLEMAN
RAFAELLO SANZIO, called RAPHAEL* (1483-1520)

Details
RAFAELLO SANZIO, called RAPHAEL* (1483-1520)

A Woman, bust length, looking down to the left

black chalk, pen and brown ink, watermark hand
5 3/8 x 5 3/8in. (139 x 138mm.)
Provenance
Viti-Antaldi (L. 2245)
An unidentified collector's mark, coat-of-arms
Exhibited
New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, Raphael

Lot Essay

As J. A. Gere recognized the present drawing must date from Raphael's Florentine period (1504-7), and is closely comparable to a woman seen in profile in a sheet in the Uffizi, E. Knab, E. Mitsch and K. Oberhuber, Raffaello, I Disegni, Florence, 1983, fig. 205)