M. Di Giampaolo (DiSegno antico 2000, pp. 54-55, n. 16) recognizes this work as “an element of a wider composition and that is similar, from a stylistic point of view, to a series of pen drawings by the painter from Bologna, an uninterrupted mark that makes the figures on the background to stand out, subtracting their body texture in a two-dimensional space.” (A. Bigi Iotti, 2016).