The handling of the foliage of the present drawing is close to that of Testa's landscapes. The sharpness of the foreground foliage is comparable to the trees of a landscape drawing with Saint Jerome, formerly in the Randall Davies Collection, E. Cropper, Pietro Testa, 1612-1650, Prints and Drawings, exhib. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1988, fig. 25b. The same characteristics can be found in an etching of Saint Jerome, Illustrated Bartsch XX, 15. A drawing in the Albertina related to that etching shows the same hatching in the sky as the one in the present drawing, V. Birke and J. Kertész, Die Italienischen Zeichnungen der Albertina, Vienna, 1992, no. 975, illustrated.
The studies of putti on the verso are typical of Testa and can be found in a number of his prints, such as The Infant Christ adoring the Cross or Venus in a Garden with Putti, Illustrated Bartsch XX, 4 and 25. The studies of three rows of feet are probably related to Testa's work for Cassiano dal Pozzo's Museo Cartaceo, copies after Roman reliefs and sculptures.