Description:  Inscribed in pen and brown ink at the lower left: Baltazar de Sienne

The ruined state of the drawing makes it difficult to judge. An attribution to Perino del Vaga was first suggested by Pouncey (note on the mount). The traditional attribution to Peruzzi was reintroduced in the Stockholm exihibition 1992. The drawing style is reminiscent of several of Peruzzi's pen and wash drawings, such as "Christ and the Appostles" at Holkham Hall, and the composition has many elements in common with the "Adoration" in Cappella Ponzetti in S. Maria della Pace. On the other hand, some of these motifs occur also in works by Perino and Polidoro, such as Polidoro's "Adoration of the Shepherds" in Suida Manning's collection in New York, as well as in drawings in Paris and Florence. Stylistically, there are clear resemblances with Perino's "Adoration of the Kings" in the Uffizi. In particular the treatment of the Madonna and Child points to Perino, and compares well with the "Madonna and Saints" at Chatsworth [Bjurström, It. Drawings, cat. no. 495]

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