Circle of Philippe Mercier (Berlin 1689/91-1760 London)
Elegant company playing music in a garden
oil on panel
11 7/8 x 9 3/8 in. (30.4 x 23.7 cm.)
in a Louis XV style giltwood frame’
Circle of Philippe Mercier (Berlin 1689/91-1760 London)
Elegant company playing music in a garden
oil on panel
11 7/8 x 9 3/8 in. (30.4 x 23.7 cm.)
in a Louis XV style giltwood frame’
Mrs. James B. Haggin. Mrs. Willliam M. Haupt, by whom given in 1965 to the following, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Sotheby's, New York, 1 June 1990, lot 1, as 'Circle of Jean Antoine Watteau' ($23,100).
K. Baetjer, European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980, I, p. 103; III, p. 505, as 'Nicolas Lancret'.
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