This drawing was identified in the Agnew catalogue as a preparatory study for the Sacrifice of Isaac of circa 1685-90 in the High Art Museum, Atlanta, R. Enggass, The Paintings of Baciccio, Giovanni Battista Gaulli 1639-1709, Pennsylvania, 1964, fig. 126. Numerous studies exist, notably at Düsseldorf, for the pendant The Thanksgiving of Noah (R. Enggass, op. cit., fig. 27), but only one other drawing is related to the Sacrifice, a study of Abraham, D. Graf, Die Handzeichnungen von Guglielmo Cortese und Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Düsseldorf, 1976, I, p. 124, no. 367, II, fig. 470. The present drawing probably predates the Düsseldorf drawing, as the dramatic pose of Abraham restrained by the Angel in this sheet was changed in the picture. Only the landscape setting and the position of Abraham's left arm and legs in this drawing remain in the final composition. Lloyd suggests that Baciccio's treatment of the subject may have been influenced by Cortese's picture in Palazzo of 1665-70.