Lot Essay
We are grateful to Dottoressa Angela Ghirardi for the attribution, made from a transparency. She compares it to similar female types in the artist's Finding of the True Cross at Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina, and a Visitation, at the Museo di Villa Guinigi, Lucca (A. Ghiradi in V. Fortunati Pietrantonio, Pittura Bolognese del '500, Bologna, 1986, II, pp. 859 and 860, illustrated)