Hitherto unrecorded, the present picture is the only known painting on glass by Pérez. Juan de Arellano, Pérez's father-in-law, is recorded as having executed works of this type based on paintings of flowers on mirrors by Mario Nuzzi and Giovanni Stanchi, the most famous of which are those in the Galleria Colonna, Rome (La natura morta in Italia, ed. F. Porzio, Milan, 1989, II, pp. 764 and 772, figs. 893, 904 and 905). Although no such works by Arellano are known today, Antonio Ponz (Viaje de España, Madrid, 1772-94; ed. 1947, p. 416) cites similar paintings by Arellano, now destroyed, in the Madrid church of San Jéronimo el Real. Dr. William B. Jordan and Peter Cherry, in their recent exhibition catalogue, record Antonio Palomino's reference to 45 small, unattributed flowerpieces on mirror, with gilt frames, in the 1685 inventory of the collection of the Conde de Oñate (W.B. Jordan and P. Cherry, Spanish Still Life from Velázquez to Goya, National Gallery, London, 22 Feb.-21 May 1995, p. 198, note 10).