The attribution of this painting to Gaetano Cusati is based on a comparison with signed and dated works by this painter, which are kept in the Galleria Nazionale di Capodimonte in Naples, the Museo Correale in Sorrento and the Italian Embassy in Paris. Characteristic of the artist is the way in which the scales on the fish are painted with rapid and sure strokes of the brush. Although this is not a work of any great quality, it is typical of the tradition of Neapolitan naturalism which had already been diluted and become more academic by the first decade of the 18th century.