This tapestry is closely related to a series of nine tapestries depicting the courtship, marriage and old age of the shepherd Gombaurt and the Shepherdess, Macée, the cartoons for which are attributed to Laurent Guyot. This series was woven principally at Bruges but also at other Flemish and French manufactories. The complete set of nine in the Musée d'Art de Saint-Lô is illustrated Exhibition Catalogue Bruges et la Tapisserie, Bruges-Mouscron 1987, nos.19-26

The distinctive border on this tapestry matches that of one from the same series illustrated H. Göbel, Tapestries of the Lowlands, New York, 1924, pl. 74 which Göbel thought was from Brussels, presumably on the basis of a very similar border on a Brussels tapestry by Jan Raes and Jakob Geubels (illustrated op.cit pl. 277). However, the border appears to be the same as on a series of eight tapestries of the story of Gombaurt and Macée, made at Oudenarde and recorded in an inventory of the goods of Louis XIV in 1673 (see: Bruges et la Tapisserie, Bruges-Mouscron, 1987, p. 255)