The recto is a study for the picture of circa 1605 in the Pitti, F. Faranda, Ludovico Cardi detto il Cigoli, Rome, 1986, no. 62, illustrated. Professor Chappell has recently published another study of the composition which probably postdates the Louvre sheet, M. Chappell, On Some Drawings by Cigoli, Master Drawings, XXVII, 1989, figs. 5-6. The red chalk study on the verso may be a preparatory study for the Sacrifice of Isaac of circa 1605-7 in the Pitti, Faranda, op.cit., no. 73, illustrated. Two chalk studies which, like the present drawing, reverse the composition are in the Uffizi, Faranda, op.cit., nos. 73a-b, both illustrated