Lot Essay
Similar to the hands of King David in The Penitent King David in the Galleria Estense, Modena, dated circa 1522, for which a preliminary drawing is in the Fachsenfeld collection in Stuttgart (no. II/576).
The verso, probably after the antique, recalls the head of Bacchus in Annibale's fresco in the Farnese Gallery. It is similar to Cavedone's drawing of the head of Alexander at Windsor, O. Kurz, Bolognese Drawings of the XVII & XVIII Centuries in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, London, 1955, no. 111. The verso is dated slighty earlier, to about 1618.
The verso, probably after the antique, recalls the head of Bacchus in Annibale's fresco in the Farnese Gallery. It is similar to Cavedone's drawing of the head of Alexander at Windsor, O. Kurz, Bolognese Drawings of the XVII & XVIII Centuries in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, London, 1955, no. 111. The verso is dated slighty earlier, to about 1618.