Lot Essay
The present painting derives from the original in the Hermitage, Leningrad, in reverse. A similar composition to the present work, by a follower of Sebatiano del Piombo is in the Doria Pamphilj Gallery, Rome (see C. Volpe and M. Lucco, L'opera completa di Sebastiano del Piombo, Milan, 1980, p. 122-3, nos. 93 and 93a).