The bronze group with Christ between the two thieves reveals a clear Michelangelo-esque imprint in the tension of the bodies and in the treatment of the muscles, especially in the figure of the bad thief. The pose of this character, in fact, with the left leg strongly bent, shows an unmistakable reference to a drawing by Michelangelo preserved at the Teylers Museum in Haarlem (inv. 18). Given the probable Lombard context, the group has been linked to the sculptor Annibale Fontana or according to other scholars to Guglielmo della Porta. The existence of two other groups of similar subject, preserved at the Diocesan Museum of Hildesheim and at the Metropolitan Museum of New York, is also very interesting. The autograph of the three groups still presents a certain attribution problem, while the chronology is placed in the second half of the 16th century. The group belonged to the collection of the painter Giuseppe Bossi.