The subject was first treated by Delacroix in 1824 when the Comte de Chabrol, Prefet de la Seine, commissioned a large picture of the Agony in the Garden, for the City of Paris, at a price of 2,400 Fr (now in the Church of Saint Paul, Saint Louis).

Robaut lists three further pictures, two watercolours, three pastels and four sepias, one ink drawing and 16 pencil drawings of the same subject.

Sold with a photocopy of a certificate from Alfred Daber dated 26 November 1953.