A Women's Bath
by GOSSART, Jan, Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, 379 x 502 mm
The present sheet is probably a preparatory drawing to a full-scale cartoon for a painting. Squared for transfer in black chalk, it would have provided a precise model for the author of the cartoon, maybe Gossart himself, maybe an assistant.
The figure at right is Raphaelesque, it is very close to the figure in Marco Dente da Ravenna’s print after a design by Raphael.