Lot Essay
Other versions are in the Louvre (exhibited Rome, Palazzo Venezia, Il Cavalier d'Arpino, June-July 1973, pp. 92-3, no. 19, illustrated), Christ Church, Oxford (ibid., pp. 115-6, no. 37, illustrated) and at Apsley House (ibid., p. 169, no. 152, illustrated, as possibly the work of Bernardino Cesari). All are of similar size to the present picture and similarly on copper. A related drawing is in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (Fairfax Murray, IV, 161)