The present picture was accompanied until 1972 by a pendant, also signed and dated 1739 (see Arisi, loc. cit., no. 278, illustrated, and its sale in these Rooms, 24 May 1991, lot 83, #190,000). As Professor Arisi points out, 'Questi due dipinti rappresentano bene un momento particolarmente fervido e ampiamente documentato'. Two drawings for individual figures in the present painting are in the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin (nos. 17550 and 17560). Of these, the figure of the woman in the centre also appears in a painting in the Yale University Art Museum, New Haven (Arisi, op. cit., no. 274, illustrated); the figure of the man with a cane had been used earlier in 1735 in a painting in Indianapolis, but in the opposite sense, (ibid., no. 231, illustrated).

The relief with the satyr and nymph in the lower left corner also appears in three other works by Panini, in the Cassa di Risparmio, Piacenza, the Louvre and in the Gamba Collection, Florence (ibid., nos. 264, 266 and 272, illustrated).

A pair of late replicas of the two pictures is in a Roman private collection, and another pair, executed with studio assistance and of square format, is in an American private collection. In 1749 Panini executed a painting containing elements from both capricci (ibid., no. 392, illustrated), and the two figures near the round temple on the right are copied in a picture which Arisi attributed to Charles-Louis Clérisseau.