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View full screen - View 1 of Lot 80. A couple with a birdcage in a park, surrounded by other figures and dogs.

Property from a New York Collection, Sold Without Reserve

Follower of Nicolas Lancret

A couple with a birdcage in a park, surrounded by other figures and dogs

No Reserves

Lot Closed

March 23, 03:22 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a New York Collection, Sold Without Reserve

Follower of Nicolas Lancret

A couple with a birdcage in a park, surrounded by other figures and dogs


oil on canvas

canvas: 17 by 18 ½ in.; 43.2 by 47 cm.

framed: 25 by 23 ⅝ in.; 63.5 by 59.9 cm.

Lord Dunmore, Scotland;
Anonymous Sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 8 December 1983, lot 59

This composition derives from an engraving by Nicolas de Larmessin copying the original painting by Nicolas Lancret entitled Les Amours du Bocage, today in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich.1


1. Oil on canvas. 43.9 by 48 cm. Inv. no. HUW 4. See https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/o5xrD9kG7X/nicolas-lancret/der-vogelkaefig-les-amours-du-boca