LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

28.11 in. (71.40 cm.) (height) by 34.25 in. (87.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Inscribed by a nineteenth century hand on the reverse: Danse Champêtrê / peint par M'Lancret peintre du roy en 1732 la tête du jouer et de l'academie de vielle est le portrait de M'Mestais avocat au parlement

Exhibited:

London, Guildhall Art Gallery, Catalogue of the Exhibition of a Selection of Works by French and English Painters of the Eighteenth Century, April-July 1902, p. 40, no. 35;. Glasgow, 1902;. San Francisco, The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Exhibition of French Painting, from the Fifteenth Century to the Present Day, 1934, p. 38, no. 35.

Literature:

London, Guildhall Art Gallery, Catalogue of the Exhibition of a Selection of Works by French and English Painters of the Eighteenth Century, April - July 1902, p. 40, cat. no. 35;. G. Wildenstein, Lancret, Paris 1924, p. 81, cat. no. 145, reproduced plate no. 207.

Provenance:

Reginald Vaile, Esq.;. His sale, London, Christie's, 23 May 1903, lot 37 for £2,500 to Agnews;. Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London; . By whom sold, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 15 June 1914, lot 18;. With Georges Wildenstein, Paris, by 1924;. Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg;. Repatriated to France by the Allied Forces on 18 April 1946;. Restituted to Georges Wildenstein on 21 March 1947;. Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Williams, Cincinnati;. Thence by descent until 2005;. Anonymous sale ('Property from a private collection, Ohio'), New York, Christie's, 26 January 2005, lot 47.