Seated lioness, with one of its front paws raised
XVI century. Pencil, Grey-brown ink on grey paper.Not on display
The album page on which the drawing is laid has been cut down. A lioness in a similar pose appears at the feet of a standing Bacchus in a drawing in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no. KTP II, no. 132).
Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracc: a century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Virginia, Art Services International, 2008, p.244
