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645Visual Documentation anonymous drawing in red-chalk in the Albertina, which copies Raphael’s Entombment now in the Galleria Borghese, was attributed to Perino in the past, and well illustrates the quality and refinement that such copies could attain to [Fig. 13.12].29 The consignment of drawings that Ottavio sent to the Grand Duke must have largely consisted of similar drawings after well-known works of art in Rome and after prints. Though Strada himself of course had been perfectly aware of the origin of this part of his collection, Ottavio seems never to have visited Rome or Florence, and in consequence he was apparently unable to distinguish between these reinterpretations and the original work.30 Niccolò Gaddi was much better versed in the art of his century than Ottavio, and im- mediately recognized the sources of the drawings. Though he presumably would have appreciated an autograph study for the School of Athens or the Cre- ation of Adam, to give some random examples, he obviously had little interest in another set of copies after these well-known ‘inventions’. After all he did not 29 Albertina, inv. nr. 14205; cf. Wickhof 1892, pp. sr 521; Birke/ Kertész 19952–1997, 3, p. 1851 (http://sammlungenonline.albertina.at/?query=Inventarnummer=[14205]&showtype=r ecord ). The drawing is now not attributed. Of course the possibility remains that Peri- no’s Nachlass as acquired by Strada from his widow, also included drawings by Perino’s assistants and pupils, whom he may have trained by having them make similar copies themselves. 30 Ottavio had lived in Rome as a child, and had accompanied his father to Venice, Verona and Mantua in the late 1560s, but there is no evidence that he ever visited Italy later in life. Figure 13.11 Attributed to Jacob Hoefnagel, after Leonardo da Vinci, Unequal affection; the frame by an anonymous draughtsman; Vienna, Albertina. Figure 13.12 Perino del Vaga(?), Entombment, after Raphael’s Pala Baglione. Vienna, Albertina.