A drawing of a seated figure in sixteenth-century dress, receiving another, cap in hand, under a canopy; other figures standing around.

The mount bears a nineteenth-century ascription to 'Zucchari'. Popham (in P&W, as Anonymous Roman) noted that the drawing may be by the same hand as RCIN 905988, Cardinal Alessandro Farnese meeting the Emperor Charles V and Ferdinand, King of the Romans, which is probably a copy after Taddeo Zuccaro; the present scene does not however occur among the frescoes in Palazzo Farnese at Caprarola. P. Pouncey suggested an attribution to Niccolò Pomerancio (Circignani; recorded in P&W); F. Antal (review of P&W, Burlington Magazine, 1951, p.35) concurred, and the drawing was catalogued as Pomerancio in Blunt (Misc).

Pomerancio was an apprentice under Daniele da Volterra and Santi di Tito in Rome. With Santi di Tito and Giovanni de’ Vecchi he worked in the Sala del Belvedere in the Vatican in 1562-63, where he painted scenes with stories from the Life of Nebuchadnezzar. In 1564, he is documented in Umbria, at Città della Pieve, and a year later he was working in the Duomo of Orvieto.