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Attributed to Nicolas Lancret (Paris 1690-1743)
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Attributed to Nicolas Lancret (Paris 1690-1743)

'L'Eau'

Details
Attributed to Nicolas Lancret (Paris 1690-1743)
'L'Eau'
oil on canvas
25¼ x 21 in. (64 x 53.3 cm.)
Provenance
Abbé de Gévigney; Hôtel de Bullion, Paris, 1 December 1779, lot 537.
Dubois, Paris.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 14 January 1994, lot 160, as 'Nicolas Lancret' ($37,000).
Literature
G. Wildenstein, Lancret, Paris, 1924, p. 75, no. 54; p. 70, under no. 3.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.

Lot Essay

The present composition is a variant of one of a series depicting The Four Elements that Lancret painted for one of his most important patrons, Henri Camille, Marquis de Beringhen.

The 1994 Sotheby's sale catalogue states that 'Mary Taverner Holmes had seen the present work first hand and believed the painting to be by Lancret.

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