Wine Cooler with Winged Allegorical Figure
c. 1787-1790
Artists
Dimensions
38 × 30.8 cm (14 15/16 × 12 1/8 in.) mount: 48.4 × 40.7 cm (19 1/16 × 16 in.)
Provenance
The artist’s estate, by descent; to Adélaïde-Marie Moitte (née Castellas), Paris, sold [through her estate sale, Commissaire-Priseur Thierry, Paris, August 20-21, 1807, lot 26]. Possibly Henri Auguste, Paris, before 1816. Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot, Paris. [Maison Odiot, Paris]. [Galerie Chantal Kiener, Paris], sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, 2005, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2018
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