Four miniature scenes, attributed to Jacques Charlier, circa 1755

for the sides of snuffboxes, comprising: two studies of amours, a scene of two amours with cut corners, and a young girl making garlands, in 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 130, 131, 132 (part)

example with cut corners with slight spotting on rump of cupid; example with sleeping cupid with vertical scratch at neck of figure, otherwise good
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The arrangement of the two figures in the miniature with cut corners may be compared with a detail of L'Été, painted by Boucher in 1753 for the ceiling of the Salle de Conseil, Fontainebleau (Anaoff no.419, fig. 1184).