Pourquoy la chagriner? Elle est jolie et sage [...] (Vorlage für einen Illustrationsstich zur Komödie "Les Moissonneurs" von Charles Simon Favart)
on recto, inscribed on mount: “Pourquoi la chagriner? Elle est jolie et sage. Laisse tomber beaucoup d’épis. Pour qu’elle en glane davantage. Dessin d’EISEN“
on verso, centre, inscribed in pencil: “Lp [?]”; upper right, inscribed in pencil: “17”
on matting, lower left, inscribed in blue crayon: “17”
cardboard backing reinforced with handwritten, mostly illegible cut outs; upper centre, illegible inscription in pencil; inscribed in pencil: “No. 34”; inscribed in red: “57”; centre, inscribed in black: “17”
on frame, upper left, white and blue label [adhesive corner guard]
1769: Petit Marchand, Paris (per Carlier)
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Possible Sale: Vente du Cabinet de M[ercier], Hôtel de Bullion, Paris, 1 May 1783, lot 11
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Léon Decloux, Paris
Sale: Vente Léon Decloux, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 14–15 February 1898, lot 58
Henry Deutsch de la Meurthe, Paris, acquired at the above sale
By descent within the family
Probably sequestrated by the Dienststelle Westen in Paris (per Archives diplomatiques)
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By latest 28 April 1944: Raphaël Gerard, Paris (per Gurlitt Papers)
After September 1953: Hildebrand Gurlitt, Dusseldorf (per Gurlitt Papers)
Thence by descent: Private Collection, South Germany
September 2019: Restitution to Henry Deutsch de la Meurthe's heirs