A young warrior, seen from behind, lifting a curtain

The present drawing was dated by Catherine Monbeig Goguel, following Linda Wolk-Simon, Luisa Mortari and Paul Joannides, to 1550-5, while Salviati was working in the Palazzo Ricci-Sacchetti in Rome, C. Monbeig Goguel in Paris, op. cit., p. 188. The serpentine posture of the figure and the unusual angle, so typical of the maniera, has been compared by Paul Joannides to that of the figure ascending a flight of steps painted by Pellegrino Tibaldi in the Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome, around 1547 (the drawing is at Windsor Castle). A drawing by Salviati of a woman seen from behind in a similarly unbalanced position is in the Louvre, op. cit., p. 188, illustrated. This drawing is also comparable to three other studies of soldiers in the British Museum, in the Louvre and in the Musée Bonnat, Bayonne, Paris, op. cit., nos. 44-6.
Another version of this composition is in the Jeffrey E. Horvitz Collection, L. Mortari, Francesco Salviati, Rome, 1992, no. 310.