LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

47.99 in. (121.90 cm.) (height) by 56.38 in. (143.20 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Probably Paris, Salon, Grande Galerie du Louvre, 1699 (the second of seven pictures by de la Fosse)

Literature:

M. Stuffmann, Charles de la Fosse et sa position dans la peinture francais a la fin du XVIIieme siecle, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, LXIV, p.29, no. 199 ('ouvrage perdue')

Provenance:

Miss G. Carlyon, Devon,With Thos. Agnews and Son, London, 1975,Sale, Christie's, New York, 31 January 1997, lot 90 (as Property of a Lady)