Lot Essay
First modelled in 1752 after the original painting by Boucher now in the Wallace Collection, in turn inspired by Favart's play, La Vallée de Montmorency
Cf. Émile Bourgeois, op. cit., fig. 398; Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé and Tamara Préaud, op. cit, fig. 496, for a discussion of the figures. Another example from the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection, was sold in our New York Rooms, 21 March 1991, lot 109, and illustrated by Ruth Berges, op. cit., Collector's Choice, New York, 1967, pl. 244
Cf. Émile Bourgeois, op. cit., fig. 398; Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé and Tamara Préaud, op. cit, fig. 496, for a discussion of the figures. Another example from the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection, was sold in our New York Rooms, 21 March 1991, lot 109, and illustrated by Ruth Berges, op. cit., Collector's Choice, New York, 1967, pl. 244