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The earliest documentary reference to this painting appears in the 1772 inventory of the Palace of the Buen Retiro, in which the setting is attributed to Viviano Codazzi (1603/4-1672) and the figures to Aniello Falcone (1607-1656). However, this architectural view has traditionally been considered part of the set of landscapes -with hermits and bucolic scenes- commissioned in Rome to decorate the
Marianne of Austria (1634–1696) was the daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III of Austria and his wife Maria. In 1649, at 15 years old, she was betrothed to her uncle Philip IV, the Great, who was 44 years old at the time. She had five children with him: Princess Margaret Theresa (1651–1673), later Empress of Germany; another girl who died a few days after her birth; Prince Philip Prospe
The drawing is connected with one of two large upright frescoes by Perino formerly in the Cappella Massimi in S. Trinita dei Monti, Rome. One, the Raising of Lazarus, is detached and now in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, the other, the Pool of Bethesda, is lost, but its appearance is preserved in a chiaroscuro woodcut, in which Christ appears on the right and points with his left hand. The
