This and the following lot are studies for sculptures for the temporary triumphal arch commissioned in honor of the marriage of Cosimo de'Medici to Maria Maddalena, daughter of the Archduke of Austria in 1608. The arch, designed to be placed on the Canto alla Paglia, between the Piazza San Giovanni and the Via Cerretani in Florence, was dedicated to the House of Bavaria. A drawing of the scheme, showing the sculptures above the balustrade is in the Uffizi (M.L. Chappell, Disegni di Lodovico Cigoli, exhib. cat., Uffizi, Florence, 1992, no. 98, illustrated), and three other designs related to the project are in the Louvre, F. Viatte, Dessins Toscans 1560-1640, Paris, 1988, nos. 162-4 illustrated. The most detailed account of the commission and a list of all the surviving drawings is given by Miles Chappell and by Anna Petrioli Tofani in Drawings by Cigoli for the 'Entrata' of 1608, The Burlington Magazine, 1985, CXXVII, pp. 785-6.