The pose of this bronze was a popular one among Venetian sculptors in the late 16th and early 17th centuries and was produced, with variations, in the workshops of Vittoria, Campagna, Aspetti and Roccatagliata. This particular model, however, with its heavy-lidded gaze and provocative contrapposto, has been accepted as a creation of Roccatagliata's since the early 1960's (Wixom, loc.cit).