Lot Essay
First modelled by Blondeau, after Boucher, in 1753
Cf. Émile Bourgeois, op. cit., fig. 511; and Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé and Tamara Préaud, op. cit., fig. 514, p. 181, where it is noted that this figure served as a pendant to 'La Petite Fille à La Cage', and where its close relation to another figure known as the Floriste is discussed
Cf. Émile Bourgeois, op. cit., fig. 511; and Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé and Tamara Préaud, op. cit., fig. 514, p. 181, where it is noted that this figure served as a pendant to 'La Petite Fille à La Cage', and where its close relation to another figure known as the Floriste is discussed