Four miniature figures in landscapes, attributed to Jacques Charlier, circa 1760

for the sides of a snuffbox, comprising: two children with a fishing net, two children netting birds, a boy fishing and a dog watching a girl eat near an outbuilding, with gilt-metal mounts

Baron Meyer de Rothschild, to his daughter
Hannah, Countess of Rosebery, to her husband
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, and by descent until sold
Sotheby's, London, 11 February 1999, Magnificent Silver-gilt, Objects of Vertu and Miniatures from the Rothschild and Rosebery Collection, Mentmore, lot 133

glass cracked on scene of couple fishing, otherwise good
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The compositionof the girl and dog shows in reverse a print engraved by Demarteau (Anaoff no.414/3), analogous with a painting entited La petite fermière, executed by Boucher in 1752. The same composition can be seen on the side of a snuff box by A. Leferre, see Grandjean et al. The James A. Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Gold Boxes and Miniatures of the Eighteenth Century, Fribourg, 1975, no. 86.