GIOVANNI BALDUCCI, CALLED IL COSCI (FLORENCE CIRCA 1550-AFTER 1631 NAPLES)

The rendering of the figures, and especially their abbreviated faces, is typical of Balducci and can be seen, for example, in Christina of Lorraine taking leave of Catherine de Medici and The entry of Saint Antonio into Florence, both in the British Museum (inv. 1895,0915.572 and 1946,0713.244; see N. Turner, Florentine Drawings of the Sixteenth Century, London, 1986, nos. 180 and 181, ill.).