This badly damaged copy is after the foreshortened man who reaches down to rescue a drowning comrade in the so-called Bathers group in Michelangelo´s lost cartoon of the Battle of Cascina. The appearance of the group is preserved in a grisaille copy by Aristotile da San Gallo (1481-1551) in the collection of the Earl of Leicester at Holkham Hall. The Prado drawing is more likely to be an indirect