Description: Inscribed in pen and brown ink at lower left (on the mount): Ecole de Brescia, Cabinet de Crozat. Numbered in pen and brown ink at lower right: 2 (cancelled), 88 (cancelled) and 1197 (Sparre)

Recognized by Catherine Monbeig Goguel as a work by Filippo Bellini. The closest parallel, both technically and stylistically, is a study of S. John the Baptist preaching, in the Louvre, which is related to a painting in the Duomo at Iesi (1595) [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 437]

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