Pierre Rosenberg argues that the Chantilly painting was an oil sketch for the Charlottenburg one.

Three other copies of the Chantilly version appeared in 19th and 20th century auctions, but their locations are now unknown.

[3] The Chantilly work belonged to Pierre-Jean Mariette, a great Watteau collector – it is mentioned as being in his possession from at least 1729, around which time Nicolas-Henri Tardieu made an engraving after it.

After moving back to France he hung the work in his château de Chantilly, where it still hangs in the Musée Condé.

Several details are directly inspired by Peter Paul Rubens's paintings: the musician, the man next to him, the shepherd embracing the woman next to him and the dog in the foreground.