Aubert Parent (1753-1835) was renowned for his virtuoso carving of low relief wood decoration. He specialised in sophisticated carvings of flowers, animals and allegories, each chiselled with the finest and most delicate workmanship. His ability afforded him several patrons, amongst whom Louis XVI. In 1777 Parent executed a wood low relief for the King, larger in size than the present, but also of an Allegory of Love. Pleased with this hommage, the King had the piece installed in his private dining room in Versailles, it is now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Velenciennes. Like the present low relief, it reveals a poetic and skilled hand, and both stand as elegant testimonies of a frivolous and sophisticated age.