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Putti playing with the accoutrements of Hercules
(Francois Le Moyne)

Measurements
14 x 18.5 cm
Type
Oil on panel
Provenance

Aubert Sale, 2nd March 1786, no. 45
Baron Lepic, his sale, Paris, Galliera, 18th June 1897, no. 21 to Levy for 100 francs
Sold by Ader at Drouot, Paris, Poetzsch estate sale, 23rd October 1985, no. 12, purchased by the present owner.

Literature

P. J. Mariette, Notes Manuscrites (liste des pierres gravees d’apres Lemoine), B.N., estampes, Vol. V, piece 208, Paris 1740-1770
Idem, Abecedario, 1851-1860, vol III, p. 133
Hans Wolfgang Singer, ‘Der Viefarbendruck in der gefolgschagt Jacob Christoffel Le Blons mit oeuvre, Verzeichnissen de Familie Gautier-Dagoty, J. Roberts, Monatshafte fur Kunstwissenschaft, 1917, pp. 177-314 and 1918, pp. 52-54
Jean-Luc Bordeaux, Francois Le Moyne and his Generation, 1688-1737, 1984-1985, (Arthena), Cat. P., no. 41 (location unknown), engraving by N. Silvestre le fils, rep. fig. 37.

Where is It?
Philidelphia Museum
Historical Period
Baroque - 1600-1720
Subject
Mythological
School
French
Price band
Sold or not available