This and the following drawing are related to two smaller bodycolour studies, recorded in the artist's posthumous sale of December 1778, now in the Fogg Art Museum and in a private collection, Paris, P. Rosenberg, French Master Drawings of the 17th and 18th centuries in North American collections, London, 1972, no. 98, colour plate XI and P. Rosenberg, Connaissance des Arts, 175, 1966, p. 89. The latter drawings may be studies for the present drawings or ricordi kept by the artist. The present drawing differs from the Fogg sheet most notably in the figure of the Bacchante playing the tambour and the group of children playing at the right. A study for the standing Bacchante, related to the Fogg sheet, is in the Louvre, L. Ducleux, Inventaire Général des Dessins Française, Paris, 1975, XII, no. 47, illustrated. Rosenberg suggested that the Fogg and Paris drawings date from the artist's period in Rome (1750-77)