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Lot 234
  • 234

Attributed to Jean-Frédéric Schall Strasbourg 1752 - Paris 1825

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Description

  • Jean-Frédéric Schall
  • 'La servante officieuse'
  • possible remains of a signature lower right
    brushed on the recto to the lower left with an old inventory number: 47...
    inscribed on the reverse: C A Challe
  • oil on copper

Provenance

Paulo de Koenisberg, Buenos Aires;
His sale, Buenos Aires, Naon & Cia, 1978, lot 32;
Anonymous sale ('Property from a Private Collection'), New York, Christie's, 12 January 1994, lot 145, for $59,700;
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's 11 January 1996, lot 220.

Catalogue Note

Another version of the composition, signed and dated 1785, which was formerly in the Louis Deglatigny collection in Rouen, was engraved by Alexandre Chaponnier in 1786 with the title 'La servante officieuse' (see A. Girodie, Jean-Frédéric Schall, un peintre de Fêtes Galantes, Strasbourg 1927, reproduced plate XI).