Four putti flying
XVI century. Wash, Pencil, Grey-brown ink, Pencil ground on paper.Not on display
Two other directly corresponding School versions of this drawing are know: one is in the Uffizi, Florence; the second, with the putto top left cut away, is in the Galleria Estense, Modena (inv. no. 661). A variant design showing the same composition but with two further putti, also a School drawing, is in the Louvre (inv. no. 9294).
Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracc: a century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Virginia, Art Services International, 2008, p.260
