Lot 15
15
Circle of Domenico Beccafumi, Il Mecarino (1486-1551)

Details
Circle of Domenico Beccafumi, Il Mecarino (1486-1551)

A seated Nude, with two putti (recto); Standing Nude (verso)

black chalk, pen and brown ink, gray wash
9¾ x 7½in. (248 x 190mm.)
Literature
A. de Marchi in Domenico Beccafumi e il suo tempo, exhib. cat., Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena, Siena, 1990, under no. 158, p. 489.

Lot Essay

Other versions of this composition are in the Albertina, the Louvre, and the Uffizi, A. de Marchi in Domenico Beccafumi e il suo tempo, exhib. cat., Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena, Siena, 1990, no. 155-158, illustrated. The design may have been intended for an engraving of the early 1540s.