A preparatory study for the picture from the Weld Collection sold in these Rooms, 19 April 1991, lot 31, illustrated. Ademollo trained in Milan and Rome but after being called to Florence at twenty five, he remained there. He became one of the leading neo-classical painters in Tuscany, executing frescoes in Palazzo Pitti, Pucci and Capponi in Florence and other commissions in Tuscan cities