LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

74.80 in. (190.00 cm.) (height) by 55.12 in. (140.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Paris, Galerie Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Le Siècle de Louis XV vu par les artistes, June 1934, no. 15; New York, Rosenberg & Stiebel, Elements of Style: The Art of the Bronze Mount in 18th and 19th Century France, April 13-June 15, 1984, no.1, pp.12-14, reproduced fig. 3.

Literature:

A. Doria, "Tocqué et les commandes royales", in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, XVIII, September-October 1928, pp. 154-155; A Doria, "Tocqué et les commandes royales", in Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français, 1928, p. 341; A. Doria, Louis Tocqué, Paris 1929, p. 130, under no. 71.

Provenance:

Bamberger collection; His sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, March 17, 1923, lot 79 (as Studio of Louis Tocqué).