The present modello is related to a picture dated 1640, which is very similar in composition although of a more elongated format, now in the museum at Bouxwiller in Alsace, France (fig. 1), Brejon de Lavergnée, op.cit., no. 80, illustrated. The picture was commissioned by the Marquis de Coeuvres, the French ambassador to the Papal court from 1636 to 1640. François Annibal d'Estrées was maréchal of France and brother of King Henri IV's celebrated mistress, Gabrielle d'Estrées. The picture was commisioned from Gimignani on 20 May 1639, together with fifteen other compositions on the theme of Gerusaleme Liberata all of which, except for one, were executed by French artists working in Rome: François Perrier, Pierre Mignard, Pierre Lemaire and Charles Errard. The paintings were to decorate a gallery at his hôtel in Paris, the Hotel de la Ferté-Sennecterre, a project which, although following the Fontainebleau tradition of large painted cycle, was the first important commission given to contemporary artists by a French patron in the mid-17th Century. It emulated the example of such patrons as Cardinal Montalto, who had designed a similar gallery in Rome in 1610. Other galleries such as the Cabinet de l'Amour in the Hôtel Lambert and the gallery in the Hôtel de la Vrillière were to follow.
The decoration was recorded as still in situ in 1660 when Henri Sauval mentioned it in his Histoire des recherches et antiquités de la ville de Paris. The series was later removed and only part of it reappeared in the 19th Century at Bouxwiller in Alsace, probably coming from the castle of the Comte de Hanau-Lichtenberg, as was suggested by A. Matt.