Italian School - Late 19th - Early 20th Century - Seated Male Nude

Today I was doing my usual rounds looking for that elusive academic drawing gem when I spotted this unsigned but truly magnificant drawing of a seated male nude. Unfortunately the work is unsigned but comes from an Italian Gallery in Rome! Fingers crossed I can this beauty past Italian customs and into my collection. My luck when buying from Italian sellers has been a real hit or miss proposition. (More miss than hit). What captivated my eye (what's left of them) was the detail in hatching and cross-hatching to bring life to that figure. My attention deficient disorder would have kicked in ten minutes after applying the first application of that detail hatching and I would have been headed for a padded cell somewhere. My "fun money" for the month was exhausted so I had to set out in the torrential rain today and trade in a tenth ounce of gold to buy it. I have enlarged some of the illustrations so that you can see the fantastic skills of this very talented classically trained artist. Enjoy.