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CIRCA 1765
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A CHELSEA GROUP OF THE MUSIC LESSON
Circa 1765
The lovers seated before an arbour of orange blossom and wearing gilt-flowered puce jacket and gilt and turquoise pattern waistcoat and breeches, she with a turquoise bodice, blue-lined gilt flowered apron and gilt medallion-pattern skirt garlanded with flowers, with a lamb on her knee, on an elaborate scroll-moulded base applied with a dog, two sheep and encrusted with coloured flowers, gold anchor marks, (some minor chipping), after the painting "L'Agreable Lecon" by Francois Boucher
39 cm. (15 1/2 in.) high
See illustration
Circa 1765
The lovers seated before an arbour of orange blossom and wearing gilt-flowered puce jacket and gilt and turquoise pattern waistcoat and breeches, she with a turquoise bodice, blue-lined gilt flowered apron and gilt medallion-pattern skirt garlanded with flowers, with a lamb on her knee, on an elaborate scroll-moulded base applied with a dog, two sheep and encrusted with coloured flowers, gold anchor marks, (some minor chipping), after the painting "L'Agreable Lecon" by Francois Boucher
39 cm. (15 1/2 in.) high
See illustration
Provenance
The H.J. Joel Collection, Christie's King Street, 17 April 1980, Lot 21
Special notice
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