This bronze is a after an original antique marble in the Vatican Museums, which forms part of a group of Apollo and the Nine Muses. Francesco Righetti is known to have produced bronze reductions of this group, which he offered for the sum of 200 Roman zecchini (See F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique, The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900, London, 1981, p. 343).
The hallmarks indicate that the silver sections were made in the workshop of the Roman silversmith Giovacchino Belli (1787-1822) some time between 1811 and 1825.