A sheet of studies; Hercules, a study of his head in profile, five other heads, two draped figures in profile, an arm and a hand

Relates to a group of sheets from a sketchbook of which sixteen drawings similar in subject, size and technique and with similar numbering were in the H.S. Reitlinger collection (sold at Sotheby's, London, 9 December 1953, lot 69, as North Italian School). The artist has been named Pseudo-Pacchia because of his affinities with Sienese artists such as Girolamo della Pacchia (1477- after 1535), Domenico Beccafumi (circa 1486-1551) and Giovanni Bazzi, called Sodoma (1477-1549). Other drawings by the artist, and possibly from the same sketchbook, are in the British Museum (inv. 1954,1126.2, 1954,1126.3) and in the Art Institute, Chicago (S.F. McCullagh and L.M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1997, no. 260).