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Description: No watermark. Inscribed on the old mount in pen and brown ink: santo zago. Numbered on the old mount at lower right: 103 (struck out) and 1352. (Sparre).
Verso: Studies of figures and a hand. Black chalk.

The attribution to Sante Zago rests on the note on the mount, which may come from Mariette. There are no other known drawings by this artist. Creighton Gilbert has attributed a number of paintings to him, starting from a Tobias and Raphael in the Venice Accademia which Boschini reported that he had seen in Chiesa di S. Caterina. This clearly displays Sante Zago´s heavy dependence on Titian- the painting has in fact been ascribed to the latter on a number of occasions.

Ridolfi mentions a large number of frescoes which are almost completely destroyed and concerning these both Pino and Dolce describe how Zago was influenced by Raphael, though this does not seem to fit with other material.
As Creighten Gilbert has pointed out in a letter it is possible in this drawing to blend the two types of evidence. It is in a sense Raphaelesque, in the idealized-decorative-grotesque imagery of the putti, but only in an ideal, as it were theoretical notion of Raphaelism. The actual forms are not from Raphael but consistent with the children in the paintings. [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 125]

Åtta putti formar en pyramid