In his study on the architect Etienne-Louis Boullée (1728-1799), Pérouse de Montclos attributed the present drawing to the artist, but later suggested an alternative attribution to Boullée's pupil J.P. Gisors (1762-1835), J.M. Perouse de Montclos, Etienne-Louis Boullée (1729-1799), Theoretician of Revolutionary Architecture, London, 1974, and in a letter to L.A. Houthakker dated 16 June 1977. Peter Fuhring, however, proposes an attribution to an artist working in the circle of Claude-Nicolas Ledoux and notes the similarity of architectural vocabulary in the present drawing with his Maison de Plaisirs, furthermore the drawing was attributed to Ledoux himself by J. Moreaux and M. Reval in Claude Nicolas Ledoux, architecte du roi, Paris, 1945, pp. 65 and 206, figs. 256-7