Lot Essay
Ann Sutherland Harris pointed out that this drawing is related to the head of Europa in the Rape of Europa in the Pitti, illustrated in L'Ideale Classico del Seicento in Italia e la pittura di paesaggio, Bologna, 1962, no. 50. The drawing is also very similar to the Magdalen in the Capitoline Museum, Rome although she looks upwards rather than to the left