This previously unattributed drawing is a study for the figure on the left side of The Nativity of the Virgin of around 1599, originally in the basilica of Santa Maria, Loreto and now in the Louvre, D. Posner, Annibale Carracci, London, 1971, no. 110, illustrated. The painting was commissioned for the Cantucci Chapel, built to commemorate Francesco Cantucci, first Bishop of Loreto who died in 1586.
A more developed study for the same figure is in the Louvre (Posner, pl. 110b). Other drawings for the picture are at Windsor (R. Wittkower, The Drawings of the Carracci in the Collection of her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, London, 1952, fig. 32) and in the Louvre (Posner, pl. 110c)