This head is similar in character to examples in the work of Jacopo Sansovino, and is especially close to the head of the Christ Child in his Madonna and Child with Angels in the Chiesetta of the Doge's Palace in Venice (Boucher, op. cit., II, figs. 121-123). It seems reasonable to suppose that a member of his circle was responsible for it, and that it originally formed part of a Madonna group.