In his manuscript draft of the history of the flute and other wind instruments, Dayton C. Miller described this particular statue as indicating royal favor for the flute under Louis XIV’s Flûte de la Chambre du Roy (Flutist of the King’s Chamber), Jacques Hotteterre. “The statue,” he wrote, “represents a shepherd seated on a tree stump, playing a transverse flute patterned exactly on the model of the Hotteterre flute. The traditional pan-pipes are hanging on a projection from the stump. A young satyr is listening with delight to the music of the new flute.”