The present drawing is dated by Victor Carlson to the last five years of Robert's stay in Italy, 1760-5. The handling of the chalk is comparable to that of a red chalk drawing of the Fountain of Trevi in Construction in the Pierpont Morgan Library, datable circa 1761-2, J.-P. Cuzin and P. Rosenberg, J.H. Fragonard e H. Robert a Roma, exhib. cat., Villa Medici, Rome, 1991, no. 102, illustrated. The regular hatching and the angular foliage in both drawings are similar. The schematic figures, especially the rounded form of the heads, are also characteristic of this period.