Private Collection, England.

M. Scharf, Once more Monsu, The Architectural Review, vol. CV, February 1949, pp. 91-94;
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, The Fantastic Visions of Monsu Desiderio, 1950, p. 20, cat. no. 20, reproduced plate 44;
F. Sluys, Didier Barra et Francois de Nomé dit Monsu Desiderio, Paris 1961, p. 100, cat. no. 77;
M. Nappi François De Nomé e Didier Barra, Milan 1991, p. 28, cat. no. D 32, reproduced.

The painting is darker richer and less contrasted in tone than the catalogue illustration. The canvas has been relined. The paint surface, which has been cleaned and varnished quite recently, is in fairly good conditionalthgouh ratehr abraded in the sky. Inspection under ultraviolet light reveals old discoloured retouching particularly to the sky. Offered ina painted wood frame in good condition.
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As Maria Rosario Nappi (see Literature) points out, this painting is by a "Pittore di rovine romane", and she associates a number of paintings in the group on a stylistic basis (see Literature pp. 278-281, cat. nos. D29-D32, all reproduced).