Description
Five gentlemen, grouped around a table, toast the King. One page is replenishing a wine glass while another stands in attendance. Set in a Renaissance chimney piece in the right background is a marble bust of Henri IV of France. The wall at the left is covered with crimson fabric decorated with fleurs-de-lys and emblazoned with the arms of France and Navarre. Discernible on the lace-covered table is a Chinese pheasant that is being served in its skin. A large copper wine cooler dominates the right foreground.
Provenance
Duc de Morny Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Duc de Morny Sale, Paris, May 31, 1865, no. 35 (?); Goupil et Cie [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Knoedler and Co. [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
[Signature] Lower right: F. Williems; [Signature] Reverse center: F. Williems; [Stencil] Paris stenciled effaced; [Number] In pencil: No. 12; [Number] In black crayon: G 1677
Credit
Acquired by William T. after 1865 or Henry Walters