A presentation drawing of the Three Fates, with Mercury flying above them. Inscribed at lower centre in a hand of the eighteenth century, ‘Del Palma’. 

Stefania Mason Rinaldi (orally)connected the drawing with a painting of the same subject by Palma of around 1612, in a Swiss private collection (Art Vénitien en Suisse et au Liechtenstein, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, 1978). But the unusual technique, with gold highlights, makes clear that this is not a preparatory drawing but a finished sheet, for gift or sale.