This picture & the other ' The Massacre of the Innocents with Herod' in the Collection by the same artist are probably fragments from a single work. Details of the work are taken from Mantegna's engravings of ' The Entombment' & ' Bacchanal with a Wine-press'. Some details recur (with variations) in Mocetto's engravings ' The Killing of the Sow' & ' The Altar of Sacrifice' & in a fresco ascribed to him in Verona.