The Martyrdom of St. Ursula and her Companions

The drawing entered the collection of the Morgan Library as by Malombra, an attribution which to all appearances originated with Janos Scholz, who in a note in 1968 remarked "Malombra is still the closest one can get." The corpus of accepted drawings by Malombra has remained exceedingly small ever since Tietze and Tietze-Conrat first assembled a group of thirteen drawings under that name (Tietze and Tietze-Conrat 1944, pp. 187ff).
Rhoda Eitel-Porter identified the link between this drawing and a sheet at the Uffizi, inv. 6771 S, which is a study for the same composition, thus allowing the identification of the Morgan sheet (formerly described as a "Female Saint, with a Vision") as a sketch for the Martyrdom of St. Ursula and her Companions. Although the Uffizi drawing has been catalogued as the work of Cesare Nebbia since 2008, Eitel-Porter believes that the attribution of both sheets to Malombra is convincing.