Scheurich first offered this model to the Meissen manufactory in October 1936, as a substitute for the group of the falling rider that had been rejected “for reasons of decency” by the Saxon ministry of Economy, and to form a pair with the group of the seated lady with doe. After Wolfgang Müller von Baczko became Director of the Meissen manufactory in 1936 he was able to acquire new models by Scheurich and swapped the plaster model of this group for the model of the rearing horse.
Scheurich exhibited the newly-returned plaster model at the Verein Berliner Künstler [Association of Berlin Artists] in 1938. Max Adolf Pfeiffer, newly-appointed as Director of the KPM Berlin, quickly acquired the model: it was registered at the manufactory in June 1939, the first porcelain example was produced in 1940 winning the Grand Prize at the Triennale in Milan the same year.