Several versions of the Madonna del dito are recorded, though in her monograph, Francesca Baldassari notes that these are most probably by contemporary Florentine artists (see F. Baldassari, Carlo Dolci, 1995, pp. 125-7). She cites, in particular, Dolci's pupil and cousin, Onario Marinari (1627-1715) as the possible author. The present work, which can be related to a chalk drawing by Carlo Dolci in the Lugt Collection, Paris, is the only known version of half-length format and corresponds in this sense to the Madonna Addolorata (with Trafalgar Galleries, London) the sole work of the Madonna, head bent in prayer, which Baldassari accepts as authograph (op. cit., p. 125, no. 99). Other bust length versions are in the Galleria Corsini, Florence, and the Galleria Borghese, Rome.

Count Accoramboni was a Papal Nunciate in Dresden in the 18th Century.