No watermark. Inscribed in pen and black ink in the lower left corner: Pietrotesta. In the right corner: Pietro Testa (C.G. Tessin), numbered: 459 (Sparre).

Recognized by Hartmann and Harris as related to the figure of Apollo in the etching "Summer" from c. 1642-44. While, however, in the drawing the dynamic contraposto and dramatic movement of the figure on his efforts to brace himself against a pole, the same pose in the etching is chosen to make Apollo fit into the orb of the sun where he reaches back for an arrow with one hand as he grasps his bow with the other.

As Elizabeth Cropper points out, conventional academies are sometimes difficult to attribute, but that here the forms of the feet and hands, as well s the vigourus expression, unusual in such a pose from the life, are characteristic of Testa´s manner..[Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 839]