The present bronze is copied from a celebrated piece, formerly in the collection of J.P. Heseltine, and now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Although Bode (loc. cit.) classified the bronze as Venetian, it was subsequently associated by Planiscig and Kris (loc. cit.) with Florence and specifically with Vittore Ghiberti. More recently, Leithe-Jasper (loc. cit.) pointed out the Vienna infant's relationship with a glazed terracotta of another putto mictans in Berlin. That piece is attributed to Andrea della Robbia, and Leithe-Jasper has argued convincingly that the Vienna bronze must have originated in the Della Robbia workshop during the last quarter of the fifteenth century.