Carlo URBINO (Crema 1525 - 1585)
Draped female figure holding a branch
Pen and light brown ink on laid paper
5 1/8 x 2 3/8 in
13 x 6 cm
13 x 6 cm
Provenance
Collection of Michael Jaffé (1923 –1997), former director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Private collection, France
Inscribed on the backing paper by Michael Jaffe's hand « D A 76'. The present work bears some comparison to figure drawings by Girolamo da Carpi (1501-1556).' This sheet...
Inscribed on the backing paper by Michael Jaffe's hand « D A 76'. The present work bears some comparison to figure drawings by Girolamo da Carpi (1501-1556)."
This sheet of study for the Draped female figure can be closely related to one by Carlo Urbino in the Louvre (inv. no. 5422) and to the 3 studies of Saint Paul (Auction sale, Sotheby’s New York, lot 72) and to Saint Marc.
Courtesy of Poncelin de Raucourt Fine Arts