A drawing of St Erasmus, bound to a table in the foreground, a priest standing over him and instructing a man to pull out his intestines. In the background, an idol of Jupiter and other figures; above, an angel holding the wreath and palm of martyrdom.

The facial types are close to Pietro da Cortona, and the drawing is probably by him or a close follower, though the relationship of the drawing to Poussin's altarpiece of the subject for St Peter's (now Pinacoteca Vaticana; c.1628-9) is uncertain.  The drawing came from an album of sheets by Poussin and his followers, probably from the collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo.

The drawing was catalogued by Blunt (1945) as by 'a feeble imitator' of Poussin; in Blunt (1971) he attributed the drawing to Pietro da Cortona, on the basis of a sheet attributed to Cortona in the Uffizi (3032S; while unrelated in any details to the present sheet, that sheet features a shrouded pointing man in the same pose as in Poussin's painting). Walther Vitzthum attributed the sheet to Cortona's collaborator Giacinto Gimignani, accepted by U.V. Fischer, Giacinto Gimignani, Freiburg 1973, no. Z128. Rosenberg and Prat (1994, p. 74) suggested a tentative attribution to François Perrier, along with another related study in a private collection.