Hersilia intervening to prevent the battle between the romans and sabines
XVI century. Pencil ground, Wash, Grey-brown ink, Pencil on paper.Not on display
The composition is related to one of the subsidiary scenes in Cambiaso´s fresco donation of the ceiling of the salone of the Villa Imperiale at Genoa-Terralba, painted around 1565. Weak, studio versions of the same Cambiaso composition as the Prado drawing are in Berlin (inv. no. KdZ 16025) and the Ambrosiana, Milán (inv. no. F262 N47).
Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracc: a century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Virginia, Art Services International, 2008, p.263