Copied from a lost painting by Annibale which a variant, lacking the crucifix, is recorded in a print by Domenico Cunego as being in the Borghese Collection, E. Borea, Annibale Carracci e i suoi incisori, Rome, 1986, no. A41, illustrated.
Sevin was in Rome from 1666 to 1671, a group of drawings documenting events in the city are at Stockholm, P. Bjurström, French Drawings, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Stockholm, 1976, nos. 660-82, illustrated