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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.
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, a paler tint of which was often used by Florentine artists as a preparation for drawing from as far back as the late fifteenth century and was used by such artists as Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Fr
