A bozzetto for the decoration of the right spandrel of the last arch on the left in the Sacristy of San Paolo Maggiore, Naples, the only significant differences being the upper half of the child angel, who is turned to face the right in the fresco, and the absense of the third angel (see fig. a). Solimena's fresco cycle is datable to 1689-90 on account of the dates inscribed on the two large scenes on the walls, The Conversion of Saint Paul and The Fall of Simon Magus. The frescoes played a significant role in sustaining the artist's reputation through the eighteenth century, being admired by critics, artists and visitors and copied by Fragonard in drawings which were later engraved for Saint-Non's Voyage pittoresque.

Although De Dominici records that 'i professori si han portato oltra i monti disegni, e bozzetti di sì bell'opera, e massimamente in Germania, in Francia e in Inghilterra' (B. de Dominici, Vite de' Pittori, Scultori ed Architetti Napoletani, Naples, 1742-4; ed. Naples, 1840-6, IV, p. 416), no bozzetto for the cycle has hitherto been identified, as Professor Nicola Spinosa has pointed out (N. Spinosa, Pittura napoletana del Settecento dal Barocco al Rococò, Naples, 1986, p. 101, under no. 5)