The attribution of this drawing to Salviati is traditional. The rearing horse with an exaggeratedly curly mane and tail and a rider with an equally extravagantly plumed helmet are most closely paralleled in the Death of Uriah in Palazzo Sacchetti of 1552-4. A comparable horse and rider is studied in a pen and ink drawing in the Louvre, C. Monbeig-Goguel, Vasari et son Temps, Paris, 1972, no. 144, illustrated. The present drawing possibly dates from the 1540s as the figure types and the fanciful interpretation of armour are similar to studies in the British Museum related to commissions in the Sala dell'Udienza in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence and in the Cappella del Pallio in Palazzo della Cancelleria, Rome, N. Turner, Florentine Drawings of the Sixteenth Century, London, 1986, nos. 125a and 127, both illustrated. The helmet worn by Saint George in the present study is similar to one in a drawing in the Louvre, C. Monbeig-Goguel, Il manierismo fiorentino, Milan, 1971, pl. XX