Rosso worked in bronze and wax to create expressive portrait busts and figure studies that share Rodin's interest in capturing psychological intensity and the dissolution of surface form. His sculptural approach to the human face and torso closely parallels the raw emotional directness seen in this Jean d'Aire bust study.

A direct student and collaborator of Rodin, Bourdelle created bronze portrait busts and figure studies with the same emphasis on muscular anatomical detail and expressive surface modeling visible in this work. His monumental bronze heads demonstrate a shared classical influence filtered through intensely personal sculptural language.

Maillol produced bronze figure studies and busts rooted in classical French sculptural tradition with a comparable focus on anatomical form and the expressive potential of the human body. His bronze works share the same late nineteenth century French artistic context and devotion to the sculpted human figure as primary subject.