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.
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