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Lot Essay
This sheet is similar in handling to a drawing in the British Museum, London, attributed to Peruzzi, which is after an antique sculpture of the Tiber, P. Pouncey and J.A. Gere, Raphael and his Circle, London, 1962, no. 244, pl. 218. Like the sheet in the British Museum, this drawing is heavily worked with white heightening.
The statue corresponds to the Sabina, known since the late 15th Century in the collection of Cardinal Andrea della Valle and now in the Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence. The portrait head of the Empress Plotina recorded in the present drawing was replaced before 1550 with a head of Apollo. It was in this state, but without the later restorations to the arms, that Marten de Vos recorded the statue in his Sketchbook datable to around 1558, M.M.L. Netto-Bol, The So-Called Marten de Vos Sketchbook after the Antique, The Hague, 1976, p. 41, fig 36.
The statue corresponds to the Sabina, known since the late 15th Century in the collection of Cardinal Andrea della Valle and now in the Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence. The portrait head of the Empress Plotina recorded in the present drawing was replaced before 1550 with a head of Apollo. It was in this state, but without the later restorations to the arms, that Marten de Vos recorded the statue in his Sketchbook datable to around 1558, M.M.L. Netto-Bol, The So-Called Marten de Vos Sketchbook after the Antique, The Hague, 1976, p. 41, fig 36.