The caged bird

Details

Attributed to Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743)
The caged bird
oil on canvas
17 x 215/8 in. (43 x 55 cm.)

Provenance

Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 12 January 1989, lot 152, as Nicolas Lancret (sold $30,000)

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Lot Essay

The present work appears to be a reduced version of part of the decorative scheme of overdoors and overmirrors formerly in the collection of the Comte de Chezelles (see Wildenstien, Lancret, 1924, p. 120, no. 742, fig. 174)

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