Possibly connected with a lost standard commissioned in 1657-8 by Camillo Pamphilii. Related drawings are in the Steiner and in the Duca Ferretti Collections, see Pier Francesco Mola 1612-1666, Milan, 1989, no. III. 29, illustrated and D. McTavish, Italian Drawings from the Collection of Duke Roberto Ferretti, Toronto, 1985, no.44, illustrated

Professor Ann Sutherland Harris will publish the present drawing in her forthcoming review of the Mola exhibition in Master Drawings