Venus and Cupid
XVI century. Pencil, Grey-brown ink, Pencil ground on paper.Not on display
The drawing must have been placed sideways, at the top of the Album page. The composition is connected with Cambiaso´s painting of Venus Disarming Cupid in the Chateau de Merkenau, near Strasbourg.
Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracc: a century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Virginia, Art Services International, 2008, p.272