Friedländer describes the present picture as 'a close replica of equal merit' of the painting formerly in the Holford Collection and now in the Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire (Friedländer, op. cit., 1972, pl.80). At least seven versions of inferior quality are known; that sold at Parke-Bernet, New York, 24 Oct. 1946, lot 47, would seem to be a late copy of the present picture as it omits the figure of Joseph, which had been painted out of the present painting during the period that it was in Vienna. Dr. Campbell points out that the Virgin and Child, apparently derived from a Leonardesque prototype, recur with variations in the artist's large 'Adoration of the Magi' at Dresden (ibid., pl.50)