JEAN RAOUX. 1677-1734

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Oil on canvas. 58 X 72 cm. Inv. No 2794

Signed lower left: J

The picture is a companion piece to The Allegory of

Taste (The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Inv. No 2176).

Engraved by J. Moyreau. May be dated to the late

1720s.

Provenance: until 1772 The Collection of L. A. Crozat, Baron de Thiers, Paris; 1772—1928 The Hermitage, St Petersburg — Leningrad; since 1928 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1948, p. 63; Кат. ГМИИ 1957, p. 114; Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 153; Cat. Crozat 1755, p. 57; Cat. Ermitage 1774, No 765; Dussieux 1856, p. 441; Dimier 1928—30, vol. 2, pp. 271, 281, No 10; Stuffmann 1968, p. 133, No 167

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Oil on canvas. 56 X 72 cm. Inv. No 2176 The picture is a companion piece to The Allegory of Smell (The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Inv. No 2794). In the catalogue of Raoux's works compiled by J. Ba-taille it was listed as non-extant, under the heading: Pictures Known Only by Their Engravings. The picture was engraved by J. Moyreau. May be dated to the late 1720s.

Provenance: until 1772 The Collection of L.A.Crozat, Baron de Thiers, Paris; 1772—1928 The Hermitage,

St Petersburg —Leningrad; since 1928 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1948, p. 63; Кат. ГМИИ 1957, p. 114; Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 153; Cat. Crozat 1755, p. 57; Cat. Ermitage 1774, No 764; Dussieux 1856, p. 441; Dimier 1928—30, vol. 2, pp. 271, 278, 281 (in the Catalogue the picture is listed twice: under No 18 as A Company in the Park, with reference to Reau; under No 11 as The Allegory of Taste, the lost original known through an engraving by J. Moyreau); Reau 1929, No 620; Stuffmann 1968, p. 133, No 168

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