
Poppy Harvey-Jones
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Provenance
E.Mans (Frits Lugt 878b, indistinct stamp)
Sale, Audap-Picard-Solanet & Associés, Paris, 19 March 1997, lot 6
With Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 1998
Literature
S. Maison, Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century Drawings and Oil Sketches, exh.cat., London, 1998
T. Burollet, Les Peintures, Musée Cognacq-Jay, musée du XVIIIe siècle de la ville de Paris, Paris, 2004, p. 44
P. Zuber and E. Breton, Le Peintre De La Société Parisienne De Louis XVI a Louis-Philippe, Paris, 2019, vol. II, pp. 711-2 cat. no. 882D, ill.
The present work is a preparatory study for the central figure in Boilly's finished painting The Movings, dated 1822, now in the Art Institute of Chicago, USA.