Attributed to the Brunswick Monogrammist (active first half of the 16th Century)

Other versions with similar compositions are recorded in the Gemäldegalerie Berlin, the Staedel, Frankfurt, the Hermitage, St. Petersburg and in the Museo Correr, Venice.

The identity of the artist remains a subject of debate, and he has in the past, been suggested by such scholars as Max Friedländer, to be the youthful Jan van Hemessen. The majority of recent scholars however consider the most likely candidate to be Jan van Amstel (Amsterdam c. 1500-c. 1542 Antwerp), thought to have been the brother of Pieter Aertsen and married to the sister-in-law of Pieter Coecke van Aelst.