One from a series of three plates based on drawings after antique sculptures made by Goltzius in Rome, and engraved after his return to Haarlem. As noted in New Hollstein, they were probably left unfinished and then completed and published after Goltzius's death by Harmen Adolfsz. in 1617. Goltzius saw the sculpture in Rome in the Vatican Belvedere, it now is in the Vatican Museu Chiaramonti. A black and red chalk preprartory drawings for the print are in the collection of the Teylers Museum, Haarlem.