LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

75.00 in. (190.50 cm.) (height) by 52.87 in. (134.30 cm.) (width)

Literature:

P. Rosenberg, Exhibition catalogue, French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries in North American Collections , Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1972, no. 36. S.R., Exhibition Catalogue , Cambridge, 1980, no. 28. T. Lefrançois, Charles Coypel: Peintre du Roi , Paris, 1994, p. 234, no. 115.

Provenance:

Recorded in an inventory taken of the artist's studio after his death (Arch. Nat., Minutier Central, LXXVI-337, 25 September 1752, fol. 19 R o, no. 18). The artist's sale Paris, 27 March 1753, no. 110, to 'M. de St. Philippe' (Philippe Coypel). Philippe Coypel sale (after his death) Paris, 11 June 1777, no. 31, (100 livres to anonymous buyer). with Paul Cailleux, Paris.