Lot 42: *JEAN RAOUX (1677-1734)

signed on harpsicord lower right and dated 1720 oil on canvas There is another version of the present composition by Raoux in which the two ladies are accompanied by two musicians (see A.P. De Mirimonde, "Scènes de genre musicales de l'écoles française au XVIIIe siècle dans les collections nationales," Revue du Louvre et des Musées de France, No. 1, 1968, p. 16, fig. 6, illus.).

probably Randon de Boisset (Sale: February 27, 1777, lot 176 ("Deux chanteuses près d'un clavecin") sold for 5,400 francs to Deville Sale: Sotheby's, New York, May 19, 1995, lot 178, there purchased by the present collector for $28,750