Description: Numbered at lower right in pen and brown ink: 550. (Sparre)

Turčic was the first to attribute this drawing to Gionima, an attribution which seems quite convincing. The largest group of Gionima drawings, seven items, is in Windsor Castle, where the artist is characterized in an old inventory as "...a painter who died young, great genius." 
Drawings by Gionima have, however, been mistakenly connected with the Venetian school. Crespi characterized him in the following words: "Infatti disegnava col toccalapis, e con acquarello a meraviglia, lumeggiando i suoi disegni con uno spirito ed uno disinvoltura che non potenvasi bramare di più." 
A very close parallel to the style of our drawing is "Orpheus saving Eurydice from the court of Pluto" in the Peabody Institute, Baltimore. 
While Catherine Loisel and Larissa Salmina Haskel accept the attribution to Gionima Catherine Loisel, Ann Sutherland Harris and Nicholas Turner prefer considering the drawing a work by Carlo Maratta. [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 1505]

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