Based on an engraving by Carl Guttenberg based on a drawing by Moreau in the collection of Baron Edmond de Rothschild (see the catalogue of the exhibition, XIIIe exposition de la Collection Edmond de Rothschild. Graveurs français de la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 14 Feb.-6 May 1985, p. 68, no. 78, illustrated). The present picture differs from the engraving in omitting a boy on the right side of the composition.

Cephise and her friend, the marquise, are depicted in the garden of the Tuilieries with a cavalry officer who is about to accompany them to Marly