Alastair Laing accepts the traditional attribution. The combination of red and white chalk, the reworking of the outlines and treatment of the foliage in this sheet are similar to an early drawing of Diana sleeping in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, E. Brugerolles [ed], De Michel-Ange à Gericault Dessins de la Donation Armand - Valton, Paris, 1981, no. 88, illustrated