Three women in oriental costume beneath an exotic tree

Details

Circle of Jean Baptiste Leprince (Metz 1734-1781 Saint-Denis-du-Port)
Three women in oriental costume beneath an exotic tree
black chalk, watercolour, watermark LVG
364 x 459 mm.

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Lot Essay

Derived from figures in Pillement's Allégories des Douze Mois de l'Année, engraved by P.C. Canot, 1759 (M. Gordon-Smith, 'The influence of Jean Pillement on French and English Decorative Arts, part One', artibus et historiae, 41 (2000), figs. 14-15).

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