Peasants drinking and music making in a tavern

Details

Le Maître des Cortèges (active c. 1650)
Peasants drinking and music making in a tavern
oil on canvas
41¾ x 37¼ in. (106 x 94.5 cm.)

Provenance

Marquis de Lassay; sale, Joullain fils, Paris, 22ff. May 1775.
R. Miller, Edinburgh.
Anon. Sale, Christie's, London, 17 May 1968, lot 141, as 'Le Nain' (1,000 gns. to Perman).
Anon. Sale, Christie's, Monaco, 2 December 1989, no 29 (sold 289,000 francs).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The present picture corresponds, with some differences, to the work in the Bristol City Art Gallery by the Le Nain brothers (see C. Wright, catalogue of the exhibition, Masterpieces of Reality, French XVIIth Century Painting, Leicester Museum, 23 October 1985-2 Febuary 1986, no. 65, p. 117).

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