The present composition depicts the detail of the soldiers playing dice for Christ's robes taken from the foreground of the artist's 'Crucifixion' painted in 1637, in the Fondazione Cini, Venice.

Two other autograph versions of the present composition, each with the inclusion of a different additional figure, were sold in these Rooms on 30 March 1980, lot 47 and 2 Dec. 1983, lot 29