Inspired by the celebrated 'antique' sculptor known as the Uffizi boar and now in the Mercato Nuovo, Florence, the model of this boar was popularised through a number of reproductions generally attributed to Francesco Susici (d. 1646), (see F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, II, New York, 1966, p. 385). Amongst the recorded 18th Century examples, the fondeur-ciseleur Claude-Jean Pitoin (working circa 1770 - after 1786) supplied a pair of chenets of closely related model for Madame de Boury's apartments at the Chateau de Louvreciennes in 1772, now in the Louvre (see Carle Dreyfus, Catalogue Sommaine du Mobilieu du XVIIIême Siècle et du XVIIIême Sècle, Paris 1922, pl. LVI; 1, and another for the Comte de Vergennes (d. 1787), Louis XVI's foreign minister, now in the Wrightsman Collection (see F.J.B. Watson The Wrightsman Collection II, New York, 1966, no. 199). The Wrightsman pair were for many years in the possession of the Paris firm of bronziers Braguès, who specialised in reproduction of period bronzes d'ameublement, and they were used as models for this purpose. Thus later repetitions are relatively numerous. Moreover, L-F. Feuchère pére possessed a number of moulds for this model, by various eighteenth Century fondeurs-ciseleurs, which were dispensed in a series of sales in Paris in the 1820's. Lot 39 in the 1829 sale comprised:- Deux beaux bronzes, cerf et sanglier sur maître. It is indicated in the catalogue that Fenchére owned the copyright for this pair, and it may have been from this source that some of the 19th Century versions of this model derived.

Related chenets were sold from The Firestone Collection, Christie's, New York, 23-24 November 1991, lot 856. The Keck Collection, Sotheby's, New York, 12 December 1991, lot 20 and anonymously Christie's, Monaco, 20 June 1992, lot 104