Lot Essay
A study for a background figure in the Noli Me Tangere of circa 1506 in the Louvre, C. Fischer, Fra Bartolommeo, Master Draughtsman of the High Renaissance, Rotterdam, 1990, fig. 60. Preparatory drawings for the picture are at Rotterdam (Fischer, op. cit., no. 30), in the Uffizi (C. Fischer, Disegni di Fra Bartolommeo e della sua Scuola, Florence, 1986, nos. 22-3, figs. 32 and 31) and the Louvre, no. RF 472