The article examines a drawing representing a ‘Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist’ kept at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Marseille. The expansive volumes of the figures in the drawing, as well as their strong physiognomic characterization, recall the artistic context of post-Tibaldian Bologna, where Nosadella lived and worked, and to whom the authorship of the sheet is attributed. An analysis of the style and composition of the drawing, based on a comparison with some of the artist’s known drawings and paintings, has led to the inclusion of the Marseille drawing in a group of works belonging to a specific phase of his career, datable to the late 1550s, thus filling out the still incomplete catalogue of the Bolognese painter.