Description: Numbered: 42 (struck out) in pen and black ink in lower right corner. Numbered: 1078 in pen and black ink in lower right corner. (Sparre)
Verso: Study for the same composition with the angel in profile. Pen and brown ink

Although we do not know any piccture with this subject this drawing is a characteristic example of Cavedone's drawing style c. 1620. We recognize the summary abbreviations of the faces with eyes and mouth indicated with a few heavy lines and the bodies, hidden behind draperies, drawn with nervously expressive lines. There are excellent parallels in the drawing of Christ stumbling under his cross in the Louvre in the studies for the capture of Samson as well as in his preparatory drawings for the frescoes in S. Salvatore in Bologna. It was while working on this commission that Cavedone fell from the scaffolding and was badly injured. [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 1460]

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