Other drawings of fauns and faunesses reclining above a semi-circular shape are in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (E. Brugerolles, Les dessins vénitiens des collections de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, exhib. cat., Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1990, no. 50, illustrated) and in the Horne Foundation, L. Ragghianti Collobi, Disegni della Fondazione Horne, exhib. cat., Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 1963, nos. 100-3, illustrated.
The drawing in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts was previously connected to the ceilings of the Palazzo Clerici in Milan and the Villa Pisani in Strà, dating from the 1740s and early 1760s respectively, but neither it, nor the present sheet, is directly related to these. The drawings were, like the large series of the Holy Family, probably drawn as variations of a theme which Tiepolo had initially explored in his pictures.