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The Three Graces by Raphael
BARTOLOMEO PASSAROTTI (1529-92)

St Jerome 

Pen and ink over black chalk | RCIN 906044

Passarotti specialised in vigorous and showy pen drawings, and he probably made this large, careful sheet for a collector in Bologna. He based the pose on a sculpture of a river-god by Giambologna, part of a fountain in the Boboli Gardens, Florence.


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