A pastel signed by Boucher of the same composition is in the Louvre, G. Monnier, Musée du Louvre, cabinet des dessins, pastels XVIIème et XVIIIème siècles, Paris, 1972, no. 26, illustrated.
Marie-Emilie, born in 1740, was the second daughter of François Boucher and married her father's pupil, the miniaturist Pierre-Antoine Baudoin.