The deposition of Christ
XVI century. Wash, Grey-brown ink, Pencil, Pencil ground on yellow paper.Not on display
The sheet is pasted down onto an early nineteenth-century French mount, with the border colored in light green and pink. A number of drawings of this composition, or close variants, are known. This is a particularly feeble example by a member or Cambiaso´s later following.
Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci. A century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Chicago, Art Services International, 2008, p.233
