Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Two Putti (recto) ; Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and a Putto (verso), 1505?6 (? ), Pen and brown ink, touches of brown wash, heightened with white (partly oxidized), over traces of black chalk, on tinted paper; partial tracing of figures from the verso (recto) ; Pen and brown ink over black chalk (verso), 7 3/8 x 6 7/16 in. (18. 7 x 16. 3 cm), Drawings, Fra Bartolomeo (Bartolomeo di Paolo del Fattorino) (Italian, Florence 1473?1517 Florence), This sheet likely served as an exploratory idea for a composition rather than a preparatory study for a particular painting. This drawing sheds light upon Fra Bartolomeo?s practice of employing wooden models or puppets, revealed in the Virgin?s unarticulated hands and the arm of the Child which is truncated at the wrist