A copy possibly by the artist's studio in which the right half of the composition follows the present painting was sold at Sotheby's, London, 2 July 1986, lot 319, as 'Circle of Giovanni Battista Ruoppolo', and was subsequently with Lampronti in Rome.

The monkey recurs in a picture in a private collection, Reggio Emilia, published by Ludovica Trezzani in La natura morta in Italia, ed. F. Porzio, Milan, 1989, II, p.781, fig.918 (colour), as the work of Michelangelo di Campidoglio