17th century
34.3 × 23.5 cm (13 1/2 × 9 1/4 in.) mount: 40 × 28.8 cm (15 3/4 × 11 5/16 in.)
Louis-Antoine (b. 1944) and Véronique Prat, Paris. [Galerie Paul Prouté, Paris, circa 1998]. Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2018
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