Lot Essay
Including portraits of chess-players, a card-player, men and women tasting wine in a wine-cellar, group portraits of hunters around a table drinking wine, five images before and at a ball, a village dance in Italy, a portrait of two young boys playing in a river, a wedding portrait and a woman at a piano. The tissue-backed images include one from the diablerie series, a fishing scene, les grotesques, an interior view of the Vatican and a banquet scene; and several architectural studies and views around Rome including eleven from the same series on white mounts with gilt borders.