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Hubert François GRAVELOT (Paris 1699 - 1773)

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The rendezvous at the Porcherons Pen and black ink, watercolor 7 x 9.7 cm Provenance : Sale Georges B. Lasquin, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, June 7 - 8, 1928, n° 82. Exhibition : La vie parisienne au XVIIIème siècle, Paris, Musée Carnavalet, 1928, n° 168. The Parisian district of the Porcherons, was from the end of the XVIIth century, a place where one gave appointments because of the numerous guiguettes which had established there, of which the famous cabaret La Grande Pinte. Located on a perimeter between approximately the streets Cadet and the current church of the Trinity, the district of the Porcherons was initially the fief of the family of the same name, the castle was on the site of the street Saint Lazare.