Description: Inscribed in pen and brown ink: Schizzo de mano de Federigo de Urbino z 16. Numbered at lower right in pen and brown ink: 347. (Sparre) and 160.

Olsen connects this drawing with a lost painting representing "The Virgin with the Child, St. John and St. Elizabeth", probably mentioned in an inventory from 1689 of Corte Basso at Fossombrone.

Olsen suggests that a drawing of the Holy Family in the Louvre might be a preparatory study for the painting. Its Mannerist style indicates an early date and that the painting was executed in Rome in the mid 1550s. Our drawing might be a study for the head of the Infant Christ [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 417]

Foto: Erik Cornelius / Nationalmuseum 2009

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