This elegant terracotta study is the work of the rare sculptor Tommaso Righi who, in the words of the scholar Vernon Minor, 'fashioned […] sculpture and stucco decorations for the richest, most powerful organisations and men in eighteenth-century Rome'. His surviving works in the Eternal City include commissions for Palazzo Chigi, the Villa Borghese, and the church of Santi Luca e Martina. Righi enjoyed a distinguished international career, relocating to Vilnius in 1784 and later to Warsaw, where he worked for King Stanisław August Poniatowski between 1790 and 1795.

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