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NATTIER (Jeax-Marc)
(1685-1766)
81. — Young Lady with a Cat and a Bird
Seated in a landscape, turned to the left, looking at the spectator. She holds a black cat on her left arm and a canary bird on her upraised right hand. She wears a low white muslin dress with a pink ribbon round her neck; her powdered hair is adorned with llowers. Half-length figure. Life-size.
Signed and dated : Nattier fils p. x. 1753. Canvas, 2.5 1/4 in. by 20 in.
From the Collection of the Baronne de Lagrange, Chateau d’Amboise.
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