Arthur Strasser was trained in Vienna at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste (1871-75) and thereafter was a pupil of Viktor Tilgners, Vinzenz Pilz, and K. Kundmann in that city. He is known to have worked in Paris from 1881 to 1883 (though he likely was in fact there at least one year earlier, as this work is dated 1880). In 1892 Strasser traveled to Egypt. The artist took as his subject matter, in both sculpture and painting, figures from the East; he was in the main an “Orientalist”, as the utilized nomenclature has it. Strasser worked in terracotta and bronze, often polychroming his sculptures.