Description: Inscribed: Cavedone in pen and brown ink at bottom centre. Inscribed: Cavedon. Cabinet de Crozat. in pen and black ink at bottom centre of mat. Numbere: d. 93 (Resta - Somers) in pen and brown ink in lower right corner of drawing. Numbered: 2 in pen and black ink in lower right corner of drawing. Numbered: 1080 in pen and black in in lower right corner of mat and  on 2nd mount. (Sparre)

This is a preparatory study for the painting in the cappella Orlandi in the church of S. Benedetto, Bologna. A. Emiliani, D. Calvesi and L. Giles agree that a date of 1607 which seems to be the date inscribed almost illegibly on the canvas is consistent with the style of the painting. In this sketchy drawing Cavedone develops his general idea about the composition. S. Anthony and the demon to the right remain much the same in the picture while the two demons on the left have undergone certain changes. The upper zone of the composition, which is only partially suggested in this sheet, is further developed in a drawing in the Louvre in a heavier and more elaborate manner. 

This was one of many drawings by Cavedone in Crozat's collection. According to Mariette: "Le Malvasia et le Pasinelli avoient encore rassemblé les plus beaux dessins de Cavedone. M. Crozat les a eu tous, l'on y retrouve un Peintre, qui tant qu'il a eté dans sa vigeur, s'est distingué par la beauté de ses Composition, digne de Louis Carrache, par une intelligence de clairobscur, qui ne le cède point au Titien. [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 1455]

Den helige Antonius frestelse