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Glorification of the Art of Painting: putti, holding a painter's maulstick, a brush, a sketchbook, a laurel wreath and a palette, decorating a stone altar with a garland of flowers - en grisaille - a feigned bas relief
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Jacob de Wit (1695-1754)
Glorification of the Art of Painting: putti, holding a painter's maulstick, a brush, a sketchbook, a laurel wreath and a palette, decorating a stone altar with a garland of flowers - en grisaille - a feigned bas relief
signed and dated on the sketchbook J.d.Wit/1741
oil on shaped canvas, unframed
128.5 x 110.7 cm
Glorification of the Art of Painting: putti, holding a painter's maulstick, a brush, a sketchbook, a laurel wreath and a palette, decorating a stone altar with a garland of flowers - en grisaille - a feigned bas relief
signed and dated on the sketchbook J.d.Wit/1741
oil on shaped canvas, unframed
128.5 x 110.7 cm