Lot Essay
Used for the picture in the Musée d'Archéologie et des Beaux-Arts, Vienne, inv. no. 197g (the pendant to no. 201g, see note to the previous lot in this sale). The figure of the child also appears two pictures depicting a game of backgammon and a schoolroom, similar to pictures in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, catalogue, 1920, no. 589; the Bayerische Staatsgmäldesammlungen, Munich, inv. no. 1570; and those sold at Zeller, Lindau, 8-12 May 1979, lot 1621 and Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 18 November 1985, lot 152.