Lot Essay
A version painted on ivory, also attributed to Charlier, is illustrated in Pierrette Jean-Richard, Miniatures sur ivoire. Musée du Louvre. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 1994, p. 83 nr 112.
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ATTRIBUTED TO JACQUES CHARLIER, circa 1750/1760
A lady playing the hurdy-gurdy, seated in a landscape, wearing a blue-striped white head-dress, a black choker, a striped blue shawl and a blue-bordered russet dress with white lace sleeves; on vellum, rectangular -- 59 x 74 mm, fine carved Louis XV wood frame surmounted by a crown.
A lady playing the hurdy-gurdy, seated in a landscape, wearing a blue-striped white head-dress, a black choker, a striped blue shawl and a blue-bordered russet dress with white lace sleeves; on vellum, rectangular -- 59 x 74 mm, fine carved Louis XV wood frame surmounted by a crown.