Although Giovanni Battista Naldini worked under Giorgio Vasari on commissions for the Medici family in Florence, his style reflected that of his first teacher, Pontormo (Jacopo Carruci). Like Pontormo, Naldini placed great emphasis on drawing from live models, usually in red chalk, as in this study. The model for this drawing seems to have been one of Naldini’s studio assistants. The artist would replicate this model’s pose in paintings of other types of subjects, from chubby putti (winged infants) to old women. This drawing was formerly ascribed to Pontormo, but the quickly drawn right foot resembling a lobster claw—a shorthand seen in many of Naldini’s drawings—became the basis for reattributing the work to the latter artist.