We study the Large Magellanic Cloud Papillon Nebula ( N 159-5 ) , a conspicuous High Excitation Blob ( HEB ) lying in the star forming complex N 159 .
Using JHK near-infrared photometry obtained at the ESO VLT with the ISAAC camera , we examine the stellar populations associated with the Papillon , tracing their history using stellar evolution models .
Two populations are revealed : one composed of young , massive stars with an age \sim 3 Myr , and a second consisting of older lower mass stars of age spreading between 1 and 10 Gyr .
We analyze the properties of those populations and discuss their significance in the context of N 159 .
We also estimate that if the star at the center of the Papillon is single its initial mass is \sim 50 M _ { \odot } and it is affected by an extinction A _ { V } \sim 7 mag .