Rapture.

Drawing, black chalk, 12 x 15,5 cm, laid paper, unsigned (some minor stains).

Under passe-partout and gilt wooden frame (not studied outside frame).

A young nude woman raptured by a young man. With a dancing lady. The postures may be based upon the figures in "The Consequences of War", by Rubens in the Palazzo Pitti, as indicated in the ms. caption at the upper right corner "Rubens Palazi Pitti Florence".