First modelled at Vincennes in 1752 and taken from René Gaillard's engraving L'Agréable leçon after the painting of the same title exhibited by Boucher at the Salon of 1748. For the engraving see Pierette Jean-Richard, L'Oeuvre gravé de François Boucher, dans la Collection Edmond de Rothschild, fig. 1029

Another example, from the collection of Elizabeth Parke Firestone, was sold in our New York Rooms, 21 March 1991, lot 110