Showing a bishop saint, perhaps St. Augustine, in adoration of the Virgin and Child, with St. Agnes and another female martyr saint, this is one of three related drawings, though there is no known painting to which they correspond. A drawing in the Louvre, inv 13964 precedes the Morgan study, and Teylers Museum inv. K 026 seems to follow it.
Inscribed on the album page at the upper right in pen and black ink, "75"; in a cartouche, just beneath the drawing, in pen and black ink, "Brandi"; on the verso, in red chalk, "A. 7.31" or "A. 2.31".
Brandi, Giacinto, 1623-1691, Formerly attributed to.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Moir, Alfred, ed. Drawings by Seventeenth-Century Italian Masters from the Collection of Janos Scholz. A faculty-graduate student project, University of California, Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara: Art Galleries, University of California, Feb. 26-Dec. 9, 1974, pp. 26-27, no. 16, repr. as "Attributed to Giacinto Brandi, Vision of St. Augustine."
Carel van Tuyll van Serooskerken, "There Studies for an unknown Project by Pier Francesco Mola." Master Drawings, vol. 47, (2009), pp. 520-523.