 In 1970, Edgar Munhall was the first scholar to suggest that they were simply made at the same time, not as pendants.Work undertaken by scholars at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 2000s confirmed that the two were made individually.From its creation in Venice, this painting traveled through the hands of Emperor Rudolph II of the Holy Roman Empire, Queen Christina of Sweden, the Odesalchi family, the famous collection of Philippe II, Duke of Orleans, and then through the hands of various Englishmen and art dealers before arriving at its current home in the Frick Collection.