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Philip Pouncey was the first to propose the attribution to Balducci. The drawing was presumably made late in the artist´s career, after the painter had settled in Naples. [+]
Although published by Perez Sanchez as Naldini in 1978, a recent note on the modern museum mount in the hand of Mario di Giampaolo rightly suggests this drawing is by his pupil and close follower Bald [+]
This attractive compositional study is typical of Balducci´s style of drawing from the 1580s, the period of the artist´s early maturity. The pictorial effect is enhanced by the hot, brick-red ground, [+]
