Jael

A study for the picture Jael and Sisera in the Accademia de San Luca, Rome (fig. 1). Two other studies, both including elements of the picture's final composition is in Madrid, Academia de San Fernando, La Real Academia de San Fernando, exhib. cat., Madrid, 1965, no. 40, and the Louvre
The figure of Jael appears in the same pose in one of the mosaic lunettes that Maratta completed for the Capella della Presentazione in Saint Peter's, Rome, datable to the 1680s.