This is the preparatory model for the larger painting, which in 1879 wins the Prince Umberto Prize at Brera with the oil painting A Slave Market in Morocco.
Bibliography: 1911 - Virgilio Colombo, The most beautiful works of art exhibited in the Brera Exhibition from 1869 to 1910, Prince Umberto Prizes, Milan, Alfieri & Lacroix, p. 38.
