Aubert-Henri-Joseph Parent (1753-1835) was born in Cambrai, and first gained public recognition in 1777 when a panel he had carved was presented to the young Louis XVI, who was so pleased with it that he placed it in his salle à manger intérieur at Versailles (op. cit., p. 61). The present relief is very closely related to another signed relief of Parent's, dated 1792, formerly in the collection of the banker Johann Friedrich Städel and now in the Liebighaus, Frankfurt-am-Main (op. cit., fig. 7).