Two friezes of figures: Three dancing maidens in the lower register and three women holding a lyre and weapons with a male draped figure in the upper register (recto); Two friezes of figures: Three dancing maidens in the lower register and two couples with a flying griffin in the upper register (verso)

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School of Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael (Urbino 1483-1520 Rome)
Two friezes of figures: Three dancing maidens in the lower register and three women holding a lyre and weapons with a male draped figure in the upper register (recto); Two friezes of figures: Three dancing maidens in the lower register and two couples with a flying griffin in the upper register (verso)
inscribed 'V... ... pocha felicita ala mortalita noctu... neledilissia di vita mortala fabricator di...ica casa solar.. artiere sicuretsa fortetse et amure con prove... vita casta eler...callida filosofia filosofia exelsa constansia natura posia cose taretsa' (recto) and 'la concordia ...la una val all al..... una quala costante .... concordia cont... testa' (verso)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, the outlines of the figures of the lower register pricked (verso), watermark encircled crossbow, corners cut
16 3/8 x 11¼ in. (417 x 286 mm.)

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Lot Essay

By the same hand as a drawing of Venus at her Bath (the Mazarin Venus) in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (K. Parker, Catalogue of the collection of drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, II, Italian Schools, Oxford, 1956, no. 626, illustrated in P.P. Bober and R. Rubinstein, Renaissance Artists & Antique Sculpture, London, 1986, fig. 15b). The Venus at her Bath, a Roman copy after a Hellenistic prototype, was unearthed in Rome circa 1509.

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