A later version of the same subject is the Saint George and the Dragon in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

This painting and the equally small Saint Michael, also in the Louvre,[1] are a pair.

In the Mazarin Collection they were joined together, forming a diptych, and bound in leather.

[3] To judge by the still somewhat naïve and Peruginesque style of the painting, it is really one of Raphael's early works, dating from about 1504.

Giovanni Lomazzo, in his Trattato della Pittura (1584), mentions a Saint George by Raphael, commissioned by the Duke of Urbino, which was painted on a "little chess-board" (tavoliere).