This drawing is thought to be based on an image from the I modi. It is similar to an image that appears in a booklet of woodcut images that copy the engravings that were in the I modi. It is similar to the image numbered 10 in this woodcut copy booklet. The I modi was a book of erotic engravings that were engraved by Marcantonio Raimondi.<sup id="cite_ref-2017_Visible_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2017_Visible-1">[1]</a></sup><p>It is also similar to another drawing that Parmigianino created.
</p><p>Artist: Parmigianino
</p><p>Pen and brown ink on Paper, trimmed
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Dimensions: 13.1 x 15.2 cm
James Grantham Turner
1524
<p>"Eros visible : art, sexuality and antiquity in Renaissance Italy"
James Grantham Turner.
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New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017.