Genoa, National Gallery of Palazzo Spinola, inv. GNPS 89

The canvas, together with the Crucifixion of San Pietro and the Fall of Simon Mago, is one of three sketches depicting scenes from the life of Saint Peter for the frescoes of the central nave of the nearby church of San Siro commissioned by Agostino Pallavicino in 1657-58 from Giovanni Battista Carlone. Agostino paid great attention to the church as did his son Ansaldo, in whose home the three paintings have remained to this day and where they were first described by Carlo Giuseppe Ratti in 1766. The scenes are faithfully reproduced in the fresco of the nave with a bright colour scheme and featuring frames and fake architectural features not indicated in the sketches which are limited to the representation of the stories.