PHILIBERT LOUIS DEBUCOURT. 1755-1832

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- Oil on panel. 35 X 30 cm. Inv. No 846

Debucourt's work of the same title, also painted on panel, was put up in an auction on November 20, 1780, in Paris. In the Salon of 1783, the artist exhibited another variant of the picture, smaller in size (15 X 15 cm). A drawing of the same title was displayed in the Salon of 1814. The Pushkin Museum piece may be dated to the early 1780s. Provenance: until 1924 The Yusupovs Collection, Ar-khangelskoye (near Moscow) and St Petersburg — Petrograd; 1924—27 The Hermitage, Leningrad; since 1927 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow Exhibitions: 1912 St Petersburg, Cat. 180; 1955 Moscow, Cat., p. 30; 1956 Leningrad, Cat., p. 20 Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1948, p. 25; Кат. ГМИИ 1957, p. 46; Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 66; Musee Youssou-poff 1839, No 7; Кат. Юсуповской галереи 1920, No 54; Эрнст 1924, p. 168, ill.; Reau 1929, No 488

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