A river god holding a cornucopia

As suggested by Linda Wolk-Simon, who has confirmed the attribution of the drawing on the basis of a digital photograph, this unpublished drawing can be dated to Perino’s time in Genoa. She suggests that it could be a study for one of the stucco lunettes in the Salone dei Giganti, the main hall of the Villa del Principe (Palazzo Doria) in Genoa (e-mail, May 2023). After the Sack of Rome in 1527, Perino left the Eternal City and moved to Genoa where he worked in the service of Andrea Doria. There, between 1530 and 1533, the artist supervised the entire decoration of Palazzo Doria on the outskirts of the city, with many drawings for that project surviving today (L. Wolk-Simon, ‘A drawing by Perino del Vaga for the Loggia degli Eroi of the Villa Doria and a document from the Genoese period’, Master Drawings, XXV, no. 4, Winter 1987, pp. 410-414).