Details
NICOLAS LANCRET (PARIS 1690-1743)
A young couple courting over a bird's nest ('Le Nid d'Oiseaux')
oil on canvas
2138 x 2512 in. (55.2 x 65 cm.)
Provenance
Drouet collection, Paris.
Eugène Fischhof (1853-1926), Paris; his sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 14 June 1913, lot 27 (26,000 FF to Bousquet).
with Arthur Tooth, London, 1956.
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Lady]; Christie's, London, 5 July 1996, lot 80.
Private collection, Sweden.
Literature
G. Wildenstein, Lancret, Paris, 1924, p. 101, no. 464, fig. 198.
Exhibited
Paris, Petit Palais, Exposition de l'Enfance, 1901.
Munich, Galerie Heinemann, Franzoösische Kunst des 18. Jahrhunderts, March 1912.
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