Two Sketches: Kneeling Putto Holding a Head (recto) Details of a Nude Male Child (verso)

Bartolomeo Passarotti's drawing, "Two Sketches: Kneeling Putto Holding a Head (recto) Details of a Nude Male Child (verso)," is rendered in pen and brown ink with graphite on buff laid paper, later laid down on ivory wove paper. The artwork measures 24.2 × 20.3 cm. No specific date for the creation of this work is provided in the catalogue data.

The drawing is classified as pen and ink by the Art Institute of Chicago, which holds it in the Prints and Drawings department as part of The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection. Passarotti was an Italian painter active from 1529 to 1592.

The provenance indicates the drawing was formerly owned by Dr. Wm. Ogle in London, sold at Sotheby's in London on February 6, 1913, to William F. E. Gurley, Chicago. It was subsequently given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection in 1922. The drawing has been cited in "Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection" (1997).