The abbreviated signatures leave room for doubt as between Sigisbert-Martial (b. 1727, active 1785) and Sigisbert-François Michel (1728-1811), both older brothers of the more celebrated Claude Michel, called Clodion (b. 1738). If the M is taken as the initial of their surname, either could be meant, but if, rather, it is of the second Christian name of Sigisbert-Martial, then he is indicated. Both were sculptors, though Sigisbert-François was a pupil of his uncle, Lambert-Sigisbert Adam (d. 1759). After the date of these early statuettes, in 1764, he succeeded his uncle François-Gaspard-Balthasar Adam as court-sculptor to the King of Prussia in Berlin, where he spent five years. He then returned to Paris and enjoyed a successful career alongside his younger brother, Clodion. The present subjects are not listed by Lami, but are classicising, and slightly sentimentalised, compositions characteristic of mid-century sculpture under Louis XV.