Although attributed to Houdon and Broche in the late 18th and early 19th century, a bronze model of this group was exhibited by Pierre Philippe Thomire at the Salon de la Correspondence in 1781, described as deux amours se disputant un coeur.
Thomire (1751-1843) was born into a family which produced many notable sculptors, carvers and bronze-founders. He himself came to be regarded as the finest sculptor in bronze during the reign of Louis XVI and went on to become one of the outstanding sculptors of the First Empire.