LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

45.28 in. (115.00 cm.) (height) by 37.01 in. (94.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, . Exposition de Peinture: . Cent Chefs-dOeuvre des Collections Parisiennes , June 1883, no. 115 (titled. La Partie de Cartes

Literature:

Le Mercure de France , June 1730, p. 1184;. S. Ballot de Sovot, . Eloge de Lancret, Peintre du Roi , Paris 1743 (ed. Guiffrey, Paris 1874), pp. 19-20, 70;. A.-J. Dézallier dArgenville,. Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux peintres, Paris 1752, vol. III, p. 290;. . Affiches, announces, avis divers , Paris 1753, p. 92;. G. Wildenstein, . Lancret , Paris 1924, pp. 49, 70-71, cat. no. 10 (with the engraving by Le Bas reproduced as fig. 7);. M. M. Grasselli, Eleven New Drawings by Nicolas Lancret, . Master Drawings , vol. XXIII/XXIV, no. 3, 1985/6, pp. 380-81 (with the engraving by Le Bas reproduced p. 382, fig. 6). M.T. Holmes, . Nicolas Lancret and Genre Themes of the Eighteenth Century , unpublished PhD dissertation, New York University 1986, pp. 13-15, 17, 18, under cat. no. 2;. M.T. Holmes, . Nicolas Lancret 1690-1743 , New York 1991, p. 70, under cat. no. 6;. G. Glorieux, . Le Château de Condé - une Demeure de Plaisance au Siècle des Lumières , Paris 2004, pp. 30;. M.T. Holmes, . Nicolas Lancret: Dance Before A Fountain , Los Angeles 2006, pp. 86, 89-90;. R. Ziskin,. Sheltering Art: Collecting and Social Identity in Early Eighteenth-Century Paris , Pennsylvania 2012, pp. 100-102. . . . ENGRAVED Jean-Philippe Le Bas, 1730

Provenance:

Commissioned from the artist by Jean-François Lériget de la Faye (1674-1731), Paris, and mentioned in his estate inventory of 26 September 1731, no. 87 (as part of a set of four, see catalogue note);. By descent to his nephew, Jean-François Lériget de la Faye II, Paris;. Pierre Vigné de Vigny (1690-1772), Paris, by 1753;. His sale, Paris, P. Remy, 1 April 1773, lot 100 (as part of a set of four);. Where acquired by Louis-François Mettra (1738-1804) for 1785. livres (for the set of four);. Pierre-Eugène Secrétan (1836-1899);. His sale, Paris, Galerie Charles Sedelmeyer, Chevalier and Aulard, 1 July 1889, lot 133;. Acquired after the above sale by a member of the Schneider family, probably Henri Schneider (1840 - 1898);. By descent to his daughter Madeleine Schneider (1879-1969), wife of Henri, Marquess of Juigné (1874-1951);. By descent to Colette de Juigné (1902-1989), wife of Armand, 9th duke of Lorge (1902-1996);. By descent to Jacques-Henri, 10. th duke of Lorge (1928-2014);. Thence by descent to the present collectors