Lot Essay
We are grateful to Professor Brian Allen of the Paul Mellon Centre, London, for endorsing the attribution after examining the pictures in the original.
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Fête champêtre: Elegant company dancing and listening to music in a landscape; and Elegant company seated in a park with a statue of Venus and Cupid
Details
Attributed to Joseph Francis Nollekens (Antwerp 1702-1748 London)
Fête champêtre: Elegant company dancing and listening to music in a landscape; and Elegant company seated in a park with a statue of Venus and Cupid
oil on canvas
25¼ x 30¼ in. (64.2 x 77 cm.)
in an English carved and gilded frame (2)
Fête champêtre: Elegant company dancing and listening to music in a landscape; and Elegant company seated in a park with a statue of Venus and Cupid
oil on canvas
25¼ x 30¼ in. (64.2 x 77 cm.)
in an English carved and gilded frame (2)
Provenance
Anon. Sale, Butterfields, San Francisco, 27 March 1991, lot 4065 ($12,000 to the present owner).
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