An allegory of Music: a draped woman seated before a portative holding a viola da gamba, a dog next to her

The present sheet compares in technique and handling to two drawings of cupids playing music in Christ Church, Oxford, J. Byam Shaw, Drawings by Old Masters at Christ Church, Oxford, Oxford, 1976, nos. 508-9, pls. 283-4. James Byam Shaw suggested that the two Christ Church drawings were formerly part of an album dated 1569 of scenes from the story of Hyppolytus now in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. These were supposed to be designs for tapestries for the Cardinal Ippolito d'Este. A drawing of King David also at Christ Church shows a figure holding the same musical instrument as shown in the present drawing, J. Byam Shaw, op. cit., no. 506, pl. 281.