Jacques-Laurent Agasse (Geneva 1767-1849 London)

We are grateful to Renée Loche for endorsing the attribution to Jacques-Laurent Agasse on the basis of photographs, and for suggesting a date of execution of around 1806/7. Agasse's Livre de Vérité indicates that the artist frequently made copies after his own works. The present work appears to be an autograph copy of an almost identical composition of very similar dimensions sold at Christie's, London, 20 November 2008, lot 529.