1740
diam.: 21.5 cm (8 7/16 in.)
Private collection, France; Didier Aaron et Cie, Paris, sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston (by 1997), gift; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, inv. no. 1999.227
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