 A document of 28 September 1655 states it was sold to the Certosa by architect Cosimo Fanzago and was hung above the door to the sacristy.Bernardo de' Dominici described this painting in the third volume of his "Vite dei Pittori, Scultori, ed Architetti Napolitani" (1742) as "a miracle of art, executed with such power of truth that it triumphs over whatever work is near it".Battistello Caracciolo had made a copy of this painting, now lost.