Walter Vitzthum, on the basis of a photograph, suggested that this is a primo pensiero for one of the spandrels in San Martino, Naples, O. Ferrari and G. Scavizzi, Luca Giordano, Rome, 1966, II, pp. 230-1, III, fig. 506. This was Giordano's major project after his return from Spain at the end of his life