Polidoro Caldara, called Polidoro da Caravaggio (1490/1500-1543)

A Nude seen from behind, his left Arm raised, a kneeling Woman, a female Nude after the Antique, seen from behind, and Study of a right Eye (recto); The Bust of a draped Nude (verso)

細節

Polidoro Caldara, called Polidoro da Caravaggio (1490/1500-1543)
A Nude seen from behind, his left Arm raised, a kneeling Woman, a female Nude after the Antique, seen from behind, and Study of a right Eye (recto); The Bust of a draped Nude (verso)
with inscription 'Raffaello' (recto) and 'Raffaelle à terzo' and 'mano di m unm' antonio bi .ho in palazio di te angelo oroma di porte doibr° cho.'
red chalk, pen and brown ink (recto), watermark bull's head below a star
216 x 173 mm.

來源

Sir Joshua Reynolds (L. 2346).
with Hans Calmann.

拍場告示

An alternative attribution to Bertoia has been suggested, see Diane de Grazia, Bertoia, Mirola and the Farnese Court, Nuova Alfa, 1991, no. 131, illustrated.

拍品專文

The present sheet is characteristic of the keen interest in antique sculpture shown by the artists from the circle of Raphael in general and of Polidoro da Caravaggio in particular. The female nude, seen from behind, is loosely based on sculptures of the so-called Venus Pudica type, P. Bober and R. Rubinstein, Renaissance Artists and Antique Sculpture, London, 1986, figs. 14-5. A drawing by Jacopo Bertoia, in the British Museum shows the same model, seen from the same angle, D. De Grazia, Bertoia, Mirola and the Farnese Court, 1991, Milan, fig. 131.
The study of a nude with his left arm raised seems to be also based on antique sculptures. Similar poses can be found in the Apollo Belvedere and the figures of the Dioscuri in front of the Quirinale Palace, Rome.
The attribution of the drawing has been confirmed by Lanfranco Ravelli in a letter dated 20 April 1979.