Follower of Anne Vallayer-Coster

Albert Besnard, Paris;

Private collection, Paris, by 1970;

Thence by descent to the present owner.

M. Tourneux, 'Une exposition rétrospective d’art féminin', in Gazette des Beaux Arts, I, 1908, pp. 292–93, reproduced (as Anne Vallayer Coster);

M. Roland Michel, Anne Vallayer-Coster 1744–1818, Paris 1970, p. 191, no. 277 (under rejected attributions, as possibly executed in the 19^th century by a follower of Anne Vallayer Coster).

Paris, Lyceum Club, Le femmes peintres, 1908.

An attribution to the French artist Louis Tessier (circa 1719–1781), whose œuvre consists mostly of still-life compositions with elements of architecture and design, has been suggested.¹

¹ Compare the present work with the following canvases attributed to the artist sold New York, Sotheby's, 30 January 2020, lot 210; https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/master-paintings-sculpture-day-sale/attributed-to-louis-tessier-allegory-of-the-arts