Cows, sheep, and other farm animals resting in a landscape, with a courting couple and a sleeping shepherd, a ruin beyond; and Bulls, cows and sheep resting in a landscape, with two shepherds conversing, a thatched cottage and a ruin beyond

This picture compares with six Still lifes of flowers in a vase on a stone ledge which Cardinal Flavio Chigi commissioned to the artist in circa 1680. One example of these, now in a private collection, is illustrated in the catalogue to the exhibition Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Regista del Barocco, ed. M.G. Bernardini and M. Fagiolo dell'Arco, Palazzo Venezia, Rome 21 May - 16 September 1999, p. 395, no. 140c.