A FAMILLE ROSE 'EUROPEAN SUBJECT' DEEP-PLATE painted with 'The Cherry Pickers', two ladies at ground level collecting cherries picked by a gallant up a ladder, the whole subject suggestive of French romantic painting in the 18th Century, below a band of chains at the border, circa 1775

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A FAMILLE ROSE 'EUROPEAN SUBJECT' DEEP-PLATE painted with 'The Cherry Pickers', two ladies at ground level collecting cherries picked by a gallant up a ladder, the whole subject suggestive of French romantic painting in the 18th Century, below a band of chains at the border, circa 1775
23.1cm. diam.

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A similar plate is illustrated by Beurdeley, op.cit., p54, fig.29. The author also illustrates a print by Nicolas Ponce after a painting by Antoine Baudouin which was the source, and notes that the plate inspired Francois Boucher to paint a large picture now hanging in Kenwood. For other examples of this popular subject, which appears in very different quality and on a variety of forms, cf. Hervouet and Bruneau, op.cit., p.33,fig.6; and Scheurleer, op.cit., fig.214

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