Lot Essay
The pendant to the present lot remains untraced, but is known from a reduced version (oil on canvas, 63.5 x 78.5 cm., signed and dated 1778), which was at Sotheby's, New York, 12 January 1989, no. 156 (see Volle, op. cit., no. 47). Jean-Pierre Cuzin has also published a sketch by Barthelémy for the pendant, formerly attributed to Fragonard (J.P. Cuzin, Fragonard: Vie et oeuvre, Paris, 1987, p. 11, fig. 14).