An unsigned version of similar size to the present picture is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (B. Nicolson, The International Caravaggesque Movement, Oxford, 1979, p. 27, pl. 209; P.C. Sutton, A Pair by Van Bijlert, Hoogsteder-Naumann Mercury, 8, 1989, pp. 4-16, fig. 2; B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, ed. L. Vertova, Turin, 1990, I, p. 70; III, pl. 1324). Dr. Paul Huys Janssen has kindly informed us that he considers the present signed picture to be the prime version and the Houston picture an autograph replica and he plans to publish them as such in his forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work to be published in 1996. A signed Mars overcome by Cupid in the Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, was previously thought to be the pendant to the Houston picture, but it now seems more likely that it was originally paired with the present canvas (for the Chrysler picture, see Sutton, loc. cit., and Nicolson, op. cit., I, p. 69).