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Nicolas Antoine TAUNAY (C. 1755-1830) Attributed...

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Nicolas Antoine TAUNAY (C. 1755-1830) Attributed to Village fair Watercolor on paper. Old freckles and wetness in the sky. Size : 23,5 X 18,5 cm Our drawing corresponds, with some variations, to the scene engraved by Descourtis (1753-1820). Nicolas Antoine Taunay represented several times scenes of villages and harlequinades with itinerant actors, of which a version in oil (the theater of madness) is preserved in the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes of Rio de Janeiro, and another similar one in the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Reims (Inv. 983.29.1) Cabinet Artemis Estimations, M. Pierre Grignon Dumoulin, expert of justice near the Court of Appeal of Amiens, 06.09.83.33.29, www.artemisestimations.com.