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.

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.