The annotations on the reverse of the old backing attributr this good drawing to Perino del Vaga (1501-1547). The handling seems to me, however, more typical of Salviati. The composition shows an attack on a fortress with mobile engines of war, among which is a battering ram.
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. 380.
Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci. A century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Art Services International, Chicago, 2008, pp. 380.
Inv. Legado Pedro Fernández Durán, 1931. Núm. 92.
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