A female head and two feet

A photograph of a drawing depicting a female head and two feet now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice (inv. no. 55 verso). This drawing is on the verso of a sheet of four male heads (see RCIN 851368 for a photograph of the recto). Annotated on the verso. 

Ferino Pagden (see Bibliographic References) noted that the motifs depicted on the upper half of the sheet are by a later hand than that responsible for the head.

This drawing is part of the so-called "Libretto di Raffaello" or "Libretto Veneziano", 53 sheets that used to be mounted in a volume. After complicated negotiations, the sketchbook was bought by the museum in the 1820s, after the death of Giuseppe Bossi, who was its previous owner. A number of scholars debated the author of the drawings (with many names proposed, such as Pinturicchio, Antonio da Viterbo, Eusebio del Giorgio, Girolamo Genga) and their date. In 1984, the Gallerie dell'Accademia catalogued the drawings as by an artist contemporary to Raphael, whose juvenile works he copied in this sketchbook (see Bibliographic References).