We also know their history.

When the sculptor was ill at Rome in 1544, Luigi del Riccio nursed him in the palace of the Strozzi.

Gratitude for this hospitality induced him to make a present of the statues to Ruberto degli Strozzi, who took them to France and offered them to the King.

Francis gave them to the Constable de Montmorenci; and he placed them in his country-house of Ecouen.

In 1793 the Republic offered them for sale, when they were bought for the French nation by M.Lenoir.
One of these Captives deserves to be called the most fascinating creation of the master's genius.