An exterior of a palace with elegant figures playing chess on a balcony

This as-yet unidentified artist shares some stylistic and compositional elements with the Roman painter Giuseppe Cades. Cades trained with Domenico Corvi until the age of sixteen, when he won the first prize at the Accademia di San Luca. In the following years, he dedicated himself to making drawings after the Antique, which he sold to foreign travelers. This painting shows in its fresh colors a definite neo-classical tendency, yet the composition and the vivid depiction of the figures reflect the influence of late Roman Baroque painting on this anonymous artist.