Follower of Anne Vallayer-Coster

Albert Besnard, Paris;

Private collection, Paris, by 1970;

Thence by descent to the present owner.

Paris, Lyceum Club, Le femmes peintres, 1908.

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).

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