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François Desportes
1661-1743
17th century
Oil on paper prepared with a brown oil wash, laid down on canvas.
25 1/4 x 18 7/8 inches (641 x 479 mm)
Thaw Collection
2017.270
Notes:
This vivid oil sketch is the artist's preparation for the painting "Dogs, Dead Game, and Fruit", now in the Wallace Collection, London, a work signed and dated by the artist 1715.
Provenance:
Sale, Paris, Palais Galliera, 30 May 1973, lot 8.; Claus Virch, Paris; Adrian Ward-Jackson, London, 1981; Jean de Bestegui, Paris; Adrian Ward-Jackson, London; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.
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