A battle scene with Francesco Maria della Rovere flanked by a flying allegorical figure

This sheet includes several passages which are based on drawings by Genga which he made in preparation for the frescoes a the Villa Imperiale Vecchia in Pesaro, commissioned by this artist's most important patron, Francesco Maria I della Rovere (1490-1538). The scene in the lower right quadrant of the sheet corresponds to Genga's drawing, Battle scene with Francesco Maria della Rovere and a Sea God in the Louvre, while the scene at the top of the sheet clearly derives from his Battle scene drawing now in Stockholm (for images see F. Rinaldi, 'Girolamo Genga as a draftsman', Master Drawings, LII, no. 1, Spring 2014, pp. 29, 42-3, figs. 42, 43). Another drawing that Rinaldi attributes to Genga (op. cit., p. 48, no. B11) depicts the same equestrian battle that is on the left side of the present sheet. The present drawing indicates that perhaps Genga's drawings were all on one sheet originally, and then cut down and dispersed.