Lot Essay
A smaller variant, in the opposite sense, dated by Oreste Ferrari and Giuseppe Scavizzi to c. 1660-70, is in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux (O. Ferrari and G. Scavizzi, Luca Giordano, Naples, 1992, I, p. 290, no. A239; II, p. 588, fig. 315).