The present composition demonstrates the enthusiasm for perspectival trompe l'oeil designs in 17th Century France, a practice which reached its apogee in the work of Jacques Rousseau (1630-1693) at St. Cloud, St. Germain-en-Laye, Marly and Versailles where two of his paintings remain in-situ in the Salle de Venus. A comparable, but later, design attributed to Rousseau for a similar colonnaded perspectival view is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London