The composition is based, in reverse and with numerous variations, on Titan´s great altarpiece in the Escorial. The style points to an artist active in the second half of the eighteenth century, probably Spanish, who may have known the composition from an engraving.
Museo Nacional del Prado, Catálogo de dibujos. Dibujos italianos del siglo XVI (por Nicholas Turner, con la colaboración de José Manuel Matilla), V, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2004, pp. 402.
Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci. A century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Art Services International, Chicago, 2008, pp. 402.
Inv. Dibujos, Fondo Antiguo. Núm. 896.
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Inscribed in pen and brown ink.
Front, lower right corner
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