Federico Zuccaro drew genre studies for use in later compositions, as is the case with the studies of a kneeling boy (recto) and the standing man (verso), both used by the artist in drawings for The Submission of Frederick Barbarossa to Pope Alexander III; the boy appears in the final composition.

The seated nude appears in the foreground of a drawing in the Louvre (inv.4436), Saint Peter and the Disciples praying to decide whether Matthew or Barnabas will replace Judas as an Apostle