Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié

Jacques Patissou, as of 1924, and his wife, Marie Marignane (L.1848);
Jacques-Auguste Boussac, Paris (L.729b),
his sale, Paris, Hémard et Lair-Dubreuil, 10-11 May 1926, lot 154, reproduced p. 68 (as attributed to Chardin);
anonymous sale, Paris, Drouot-Richelieu, 21 December 1990, lot 50, reproduced

Illustration, 6 December 1924, reproduced and attributed to Chardin;
F. Lugt, Les Marques de Collections..., Supplément, The Hague 1956, p. 107, in the 1926 Boussac sale entry

Edged with japan paper on all sides and hinged at the top to a modern mount. Chalk strong, paper clean and in good condition Sold in a Louis XVI style gilded frame.
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Other drawings bearing Marie Marignane's collector's mark were also in the Boussac sale.