The boar is modelled after the antique sculpture in the Mercato Nuovo, Florence, of which the model was popularized through a group of reproductions generally attributed to Francesco Susini (d. 1646)
A related pair was made by Pitoin in 1772 for Mme. du Barry at Louveciennes (C. Dreyfus, Catalogue Sommaire du Mobilier du XVIIème et XVIIIème siècle, Paris, 1922, no. 364, plate LVII) and for the Comte de Vergennes (F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1966, vol. II, pp. 382 and 385)
A related pair from the Elisabeth Parke Firestone Collection, sold Christie's New York, 22 and 23 March 1991, lot 856