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Inscribed in brown ink on a strip of paper pasted at the bottom of the sheet: CHERUBINUS ALBERTIUS PICTOR ET ARCHITEC. FECIT QUI VIX AN. LXIII. DEC. MDCXV. The eighteenth-century inscription written out on a strip of paper pasted down beneath the drawing is similar in type to those sometimes found on drawings with a provenance from the Florentine collector Francesco Maria Niccolò Gabburri (
This impressive study typifies the lively, decorative style that was in vogue in Rome during the closing years of the sixteenth century and is associable with the movement generally referred to as Late Mannerism. The fluent lines and athletic forms that characterize these drawings owe their origin to the work of a number of Raphael´s followers, such as Perino del Vaga (1501-1547) and Polidoro da C
