Study of a male nude and a tree (recto); Studies of two figures fighting (verso)

In the 18th Century the drawing was in the important collection of the Venetian nobleman Zaccaria Sagredo. The sheet was once mounted in an album assembled by Sagredo, as a clipping of the album page - with the Sagredo numbering and initials ‘S.V. no. 32’ referring to Scuola Veneziana - is currently attached to the drawing’s mount (see K. Gottardo, ‘Zaccaria Sagredo’, in L. Borean and S. Mason, Il collezionismo d’arte a Venezia. Il Settecento, Venice, 2009, p. 298).