The recto and the verso of this drawing relate to two frescoes of the same subjects in the church of San Antonio de los Portugueses in Madrid, Ferrari and Scavizzi, op. cit, 1992, A. 665, figs. 866-7. The compositions of both sides of the drawing are very similar to those of the frescoes: only the spaces between the two main figures have been reduced. Bozzetti for these frescoes are respectively in the Art Gallery in Auckland (Ferrari and Scavizzi, op. cit, 1992, A. 671, fig. 871) and offered at Christie's, 8 December 1995, lot 93, illustrated.
Giordano worked on the church's decoration between 1698 and his departure from Spain in 1700, after King Charles II's death. The frescoes are painted in feigned tapestries supported by putti, thus following Carracci's example in the Palazzo Farnese.