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Artist/Maker(s): Jean-Michel Moreau le jeune (French, 1741 - 1814)
Culture: French
Place(s): France (Place created)
Date: 1775
Medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash
Dimensions: 26.7 x 21.6 cm (10 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.)
Signed: At bottom left corner, signed and dated JM. moreau le jeune. 1775” in black ink.
Markings: Markings: On mount, at bottom right corner, unidentified collection mark stamped twice.
Inscriptions: On frame backing: Labels from 1932 and 1968 Royal Academy of Arts exhibitions. On frame backing: Label with typewritten text: “Bought at the Lepke sale of the collection of King Louis II of Bavaria in Berlin in 1893 [sic] by Baron Edmond de Rothschild who ceded the “Declaration de la Grossesse” and the “N'ayez pa peur mon bonne amie” to his English cousin Lord Cararvon, and the “Pari Gagné” and the “Accord Parfait” to his German cousin the Baroness Goldschmidt-Rothschild (see Vol. IV of the Widener Catalogue on the subject of the “Monument du Costume”) The first two bought by the Honble. Irwin Laughlin from the Carnarvon Collection through Messrs. Agnews in London in 1916 and the second two bought by him at auction in Berlin in 1931.”
Alternate Title(s): “Have No Fear, My Good Friend” (Display Title)
SKU: 200544
