The Jovial Trooper

Description The subject, wearing a Louis XIII costume, is seated smoking a clay pipe in an interior illuminated from the left. Beside him is a table on which stand a clay jug and an empty wine glass.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
6/14/1951	Treatment	varnish reduced; coated
7/24/1992	Loan Consideration	examined for loan
1/01/1993	Treatment	surface cleaned; coated

Exhibitions

• Hommage à Baudelaire. Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park. 1968.

Provenance William T. Walters, Baltimore, before 1878 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Signature] Lower left: E MEISSONIER juillet; [Date] Lower left: 1865; [Label] On reverse: Charles Roberson & Co., colourmen of London; [Number] In stencil: no. 305

Credit Acquired by William T. Walters, before 1878