An écorché nude seen from behind, with a subsidiary study of the right leg

Details

Bartolomeo Passarotti (Bologna 1529-1592)
An écorché nude seen from behind, with a subsidiary study of the right leg
pen and brown ink
17¼ x 7 7/8 in. (440 x 200 mm.)

Provenance

Zaccaria Sagredo, with associated inscription 'Tiziano.'

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Lot Essay

A double-sided drawing of this figure, seen from the same angle, of almost identical dimensions and bearing an attribution to Passarotti suggested by Edith Hoffman and Heinrich Bodmer, is in the Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, D. De Grazia, Bertoia, Mirola and the Farnese court, Parma, 1991, pp. 183-4, no. D/2, figs. 262-3 (as circle of Bertoia and Mirola).

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