The composition, which I have been unable so far to identify, may have been taken from a print. The inventor of the design was evidently either Venetian or Veronese.
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. 436.
Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci. A century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Art Services International, Chicago, 2008, pp. 436.
Inv. Legado Pedro Fernández Durán, 1931. Núm. 1725.
Badi [le (?)]
Inscribed in pen and brown ink.
Front, Lower right area
Z [ecchini] 36
Inscribed in pen and brown ink.
Back, Upper central area
N 3337
Inscribed in pen and red ink.
Front, lower left area
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