A Putto holding a Cornucopia, stepping on a tortoise, surrounded by a group of putti playing musical instruments, after Donatello

As Roger Ward pointed out (op. cit., p. 29), the present drawing is closely related to the upper left part of the frieze representing putti at play in Donatello's bronze relief The Lamentation of Christ on the Gospel pulpit in the south aisle of the Church of San Lorenzo in Florence. The putto in the centre holding a cornucopia in his left hand, the one to his left bending forward, and the one kneeling on his right are almost identical in both works. Bandinelli just replaced the base on which the middle putto stands with a tortoise. The second putto from the right running to the right can also be found in both works.
Dr. Ward suggests that Bandinelli most probably did not work directly from Donatello's relief, but that he, like Donatello himself, made use of an antique sarcophagus which was then in the collection of Matteo Strozzi in Florence, and is now in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore.
As evidence of Bandinelli's admiration for his great predecessor, three further drawings copying Donatello's reliefs in San Lorenzo in the British Museum, London (Ward, op. cit., no. 10, illustrated), the Ashmolean Museum and the Musée Condé, Chantilly. In comparison with the three later drawings the technique of the present sheet 'is fine and deliberate and completely unlike that of the London Lamentation copy', Ward, op. cit., p. 29.