This print by the Dutch artist Jan de Bisschop formed part of Signorum Veterum Icones, a book containing prints reproducing Greek and Roman antique sculpture. Published in Amsterdamin 1668, the Icones formalized a canon of antique sculpture that celebrated a classical ideal forming across Europe in the late 17th century. De Bisschop isolated his figures from any setting, preferring instead to focus on the precise depiction and proportion of the human form and the rendering of light and shadow. De Bisschop praised French artist Nicolas Poussin, whose work is on view nearby, as a model for this type of artistic approach, describing how Poussin’s abilities as a painter developed through his “close and thorough attention to the statues at Rome.”