Lot 148: Giovanni David (Cabella Ligure 1743-1790 Genoa)

An Allegory of Winter: an old man warming his hands on a brazier oil on canvas 343/4 x 25 in. (88.3 x 63.5 cm.) PROVENANCE Comte A. de G; his sale, Paris, H“tel Drouot, 4 June 1903, lot 15, as Fragonard. Ren‚ Fribourg; (+) sale, Sotheby's, London, 26 June 1963, lot 91, as Fragonard, where purchased by the family of the present owner. NOTES We are grateful to Professor Mary Newcome Schleier for suggesting the attribution to Giovanni David on the basis of a photograph (private communication, 22 August 2002) and for confirming the inclusion of the painting in her upcoming monograph on the artist written in conjunction with Giovanni Grasso.