Comparable in handling with the study of the head of an old man formerly in the von Hirsch Collection, related to the picture of 1586-7 in the Ospedaletto dei Crociferi, Venice, S. Mason Rinaldi, Palma Giovane, l'opera completa, Milan, 1984, fig. 91. Pictures with soldiers in fanciful helmets comparable with that of the present sheet include Venice crowned by Victory of 1578-9 in the Palazzo Ducale, Venice and The Crucifixion of circa 1579-80 in the Church of the Madonna del Orto, Venice, S. Mason Rinaldi, op. cit., figs. 12 and 19.

The present drawing was traditionally attributed to Veronese