Jean-Baptiste Mallett

Sale, Paris, Christie's, 27 November 2002, lot 168

Laid down on board. There are some small nicks and losses to the four edges and some minute scratches to the surface of the sheet. The medium is fresh and vibrant throughout. Sold in a giltwood frame.
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A pupil of Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Mallet exhibited at every Salon between 1793 and 1827, obtaining a first class medal in 1817.  His reputation was established through his gouache scenes of fashionable and often libertine subjects, which now serve as wonderful records of the furnishings and interiors fashionable in France in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.