Description: Inscribed: PETRVS . FRANCISCVS . MOLA . PICTOR . COLDRE . ANNO . DOMINI / MDCIX . OBIIT . ROMAE . ANNO . MDCLXV. Numbered at lower right in pen and brown ink: 1 (cancelled) and 471. (Sparre)

The artist is shown painting his famous portrait of Pope Alexander VII. An earlier version of the same subject in Hamburger Kunsthalle (FP 566; as Sacchi). [Bjurström, "Nicola Pio", 1995]

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Portrait af Pietro Francesco Mola målande påfvens bild