Description: Numbered in pen and brown ink at lower right: 15 (Sparre) and 13 (struck out)

Possibly a sheet from a pattern book with motifs that were used in Pinturicchio's workshop. There are close similarities between the boy at the top and the youth in his fresco of the burial of St. Bernard in S. Maria d'Aracoeli, Rome, c. 1486. Other figures recur in the fresoes from 1493-96 in Appartemento Borgia in the Vatican. The woman sewing, at the top, and the boy playing with a dog, below left, are to be found in a representation of the Virgin and Elizabeth, while the sibyls in the work bear some resemblance to the woman with a distaff. In all these cases, however, there are differences: for example, the garments are simpler in the drawing - their incorporation in a specific context called for modifications. This shows shat the figures are copied from a pattern book rather than from the frescoes. The everyday character of the different figures indicates that they were drawin from the life.  [Also see Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 404] [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 1003]

Foto: Cecilia Heisser/Nationalmuseum 2018

Titel (sv): Studie med tre sittande kvinnor, en pojke vid en stol, samt ett öga sett från sidan
Titel (en): Study Sheet with Seated Women, a Boy Standing at a Chair and an Eye seen in Profile

Title (sv): Studie med tre sittande kvinnor, en pojke vid en stol, samt ett öga sett från sidan
Title (en): Study Sheet with Seated Women, a Boy Standing at a Chair and an Eye seen in Profile