PHILIBERT LOUIS DEBUCOURT | A village fair: Le Jongleur

Probably M.T. de Montullé, by 1783;

Probably his sale, Paris, Hôtel Lubert, 1783, lot 90;

Félix Doistau (1846-1936), Paris;

His sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 9-11 June 1909, lot 16;

Maurice Fenaille (1855-1937), Paris, by 1920;

Anonymous sale, Paris, Drouot Richelieu, 6 April 2001, lot 5;

Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 31 January 2014, lot 500.

Probably E. and J. de Goncourt, L'art du XVIII^ME siècle, Paris 1882, p. 230; 

E. Dacier, Exposition Debucourt, Paris 1920, p. 31, cat. no. VII.

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Exposition Debucourt, 1920, no. VII.

Philip Debucourt painted genre scenes from aristocratic and peasant life. He was a pupil of Joseph Marie Vien, but his works, as seen here, were also clearly inspired by Flemish genre painting.