Traditionally attributed to Sebastiano Ricci; an attribution to Bencovich was proposed by Jeffery Daniels, who suggested a date in the late 1720s and pointed out that 'the face of St. Antony is virtually identical in form to the Madonna's in the 'Rest on the Flight' in the chapel of the Villa Guarnieri at Tomo, and the composition is strikingly similar to that of the 'Madonna and Saints' in Berlin, Böde Museum. In a drawing by Bencovich of 'Two Saints' in the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, reproduced in Critica d'Arte, 1936, p.144, fig.18, the figure on the R is very close to the equivalent figure in the [present] picture'