The drawing carries old attributions on the reverse of the mount to Nicolo dell´Abate and Pordenone. On the modern museum matte, A. Gere has noted it may be from the School of Perino del Vaga, perhaps Luzio Romano (1981). Certainly the motif seems Roman rather than Emilia.

Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci. A century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Chicago, Art Services International, 2008, p.351