[…] but it’s possible to recognize in him Emilio Santarelli […] To suggest this identification, apart from the similarity between the features with the ones of the sculptor portrayed older by Antonio Ciseri in the 1873, is the clay model of the Psyche, placed highlighted on the painting. A winged and sited Psyche like this one, never made in marble, was preserved in his studio and sold after his dead

Excerpt of the expertise by doc. Silvestra Bietoletti