Venus, Adonis and Cupid
XVI century. Pencil, Grey-brown ink, Pencil ground on paper.Not on display
The Suidas connected this drawing with Cambiaso´s Venus and Adonis in the Galleria Borghese. Another studio version of the same composition, corresponding closely in outline to the Prado drawing but differing from it through the addition of shading in brush and wash, is in the Fondazione Horne, the Uffizi, Florence (inv. no. 5580).
This and nos. D01716, D01722, D01890 and D01899 from the Album were connected by the Suidas with a painting of Venus Restraining Adonis from the Hunt in the Palazzo Bianco, Genoa.
Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracc: a century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Virginia, Art Services International, 2008, p.270