The subject of children at play was very popular at major tapestry-weaving manufactories across Europe, most of which followed the drawings of local artists. In France, craftsmen at Gobelins and Aubusson based their series on cartoons by Michel Corneille the Elder (1601-1664), Michel Corneille (1642-1708) and later Jean-Baptiste Huet (1745-1811), whereas the weavers at the Barberini workshop in Rome executed their variants on the theme following the designs by Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (1610-1662), see F. Joubert, et. al., Histoire de la Tapisserie en Europe, du Moyen Age à nos Jours, Paris, 1995, p. 205, fig. 151.

In the atelier at Beauvais, designers favored the drawings of the French artist Florentin Damoiselet (1644-1690), official painter to King and whose cartoons on the subject were probably influenced by Jacques Stella’s 1657 Les Jeux et Plaisirs de l'Enfance. Not surprisingly, Beauvais’ Jeux d’Enfants after Damoiselet appears in an inventory of the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne already during the reign of Louis XIV, see J. Coural and C. Gastinel-Coural, Beauvais: Manufacture Nationale de Tapisserie, s.l., 1992, p. 13. French institutions still preserve a number of examples from the series in their collections, including Les Bulles des Savon (GMT 3020), La Toupie (GMTT 59/002) and La Danse (GMTT 59/001 and GMTT 1237) at the Mobilier National; and La Petite Reine (OAR 71) in the Musée du Louvre. Tapestries from Jeux d’Enfants sold on the international art market include one sold Christie’s, London, 27 October 2015, lot 204A, and another depicting La Bulle de Savon sold Tajan, Paris, 17 June 2014, lot 136. The border woven with flowers and shells of the Stream Family tapestry is comparable to those of the abovementioned examples, and is typical of the Beauvais weavers' execution of Jeux d’Enfants after Damoiselet’s cartoons.