Lot Essay
The same composition is known in two other versions: one in Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire; and the other in the National Gallery in Erevan, Armenia, both illustrated in the recent catalogue raisonné (A. Scarpa, Sebastiano Ricci, Como, 2006, p. 182, no. 104 and p. 207, no. 182, figs. 665-4).