The original, of similar size, was sold in these Rooms, 2 December 1977, lot 55, and is now in the J. Paul Getty Museum.

The figures of the Madonna and Child are inspired by a drawing by Giulio Romano (M. Jaffé, The Devonshire Collection of Italian Drawings - Roman and Neapolitan Schools, London, 1994, pp. 94-5) which appears to have been known and imitated in Venice as is attested by Vincenzo Catena's painting of the subject at Dresden