Stefania Massari (Giulio Bonasone, Rome, 1983, vol. 1, p. 95, no. 122) dates Bonasone's engraving of this subject (B. XV, 38) to 1550-60, based on a lost drawing by Giulio Romano. Given the differences of scale and motifs between the present work and the somewhat stilted engraving by Bonasone, both works may have been executed independently of one another, this etching by the as yet unidentified Fontainebleau artist taking perhaps a slight precedence in date. The etching was attributed to Leon Davent by P. Zani in 1820 (Enciclopedia metodico critico - regionata delle belle arti, Parma, 1819-24), an attribution not supported by Herbet or Zerner.