FRANCOIS DESPORTES. 1661-1743

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Oil on canvas. 72 X 93 cm. Inv. No 869 Provenance: until 1915 the D. Shchukin Collection, Moscow; 1915—24 The Rumiantsev Museum, Moscow (gift of D. Shchukin); since 1924 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 71; Reau 1929, No 504; W. Mamourovsky, "Les Chiens dans les tableaux de Desportes et d'Oudry au Musee des Beaux-Arts a Moscou", Revue de I'Art Ancien et Moderns, 67, 1935, p. 135, ill.

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