The composition derives, in reverse, from Boucher's painting of 1755 that formed part of a set of The Four Seasons painted for Madame de Pompadour and now in the Frick collection, New York. The identity of the present artist is uncertain, although he may well be the Josephus Moy recorded in Bavaria in the late eighteenth century, but about whom nothing else seems to be known. Painted just five years after the original, the present version is presumably indebted to Jean Daullée's engravings after the series, which inspired numerous other derivations.