This composition has been repeatedly taken up by Pietro da Cortona and his workshop, for a total of at least eight versions, made on different supports, of which the work of the same subject preserved in the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria in Perugia seems to have been the reference model. The body of the saint was found in an apparently casual way in the Roman church dedicated to S. Martina and S. Luca in 1643 and it was an event that greatly affected the popular sentiment of the time, increasing the cult and interest in her figure: hence the strong demand for works that depicted the saint, in whose number this painting is inserted, attributable to the hand of one of the artists who formed the workshop of Pietro da Cortona in those years