Fidele Fischetti (Naples 1732-1792)

Working from photographs, Nicolas Spinosa has identified this work to be a modello for the lower section of the signed and dated altarpiece of The Conversion of Saint Paul, which Fischetti painted for the church of Santo Spirito, Naples (see N. Spinosa, Pittura napoletana del Settecento. Dal Rococò al Classicismo, Naples, 1988, 2nd edition, 1993, p. 133, no. 204, fig. 265).