Both recto and verso are preparatory studies for the altarpiece The Madonna and Child with Saints Carlo Borromeo, Filippo Neri, Dominic and Felix of about 1677 in the Altimani chapel in the church of the Trinità dei Pellegrini, Rome. Other studies for the composition are at Düsseldorf, D. Graf, Die Handzeichnungen von Guglielmo Cortese und Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Düsseldorf, 1976, I, nos. 88-93, II, illustrated