Nude Male Figure Seated on the Ground, ca. 1535?40, Black chalk, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, on brown-washed paper, Overall: 9 3/4 x 14 5/16in. (24. 8 x 36. 4cm), Drawings, Amico Aspertini (Italian, Bologna ca. 1474?1552 Bologna), The figure, posed on a shelf like projection ornamented with a scalloped valance, may be studied for one of the many monochrome facade decorations that Aspertini is said to have executed, above all in Bologna (Vasari 1568, vol