Attributed to Marzio Ganassini

On a small copper plate, the conversion of Saul becomes a battle. The future Saint Paul has just fallen from his white horse among a crowd of soldiers, arms thrown open toward the sky, where God sits among cherubs. When it first appears in the Borghese inventory of 1833 it is called a work of the Cavalier d'Arpino, one of the most successful painters in Rome around 1600. Critics then tried Filippo Napoletano, a painter of small battles and landscapes, and d'Arpino's circle, until the German scholar Herwart Röttgen gave it in 1973 to Marzio Ganassini, a follower of d'Arpino.

Attributed to marks that judgement of style. Ganassini was a Roman painter, born between 1560 and 1575, who died around 1623, possibly in Viterbo. The copper is in poor condition.