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Lot 201

The Chocolate Girl (Baker's Chocolate)

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
Starting Bid
$500

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The Chocolate Girl: After Jean-Etienne Liotard. Oil on canvas mounted to board, framed. The painting is accompanied by an advertisement from Walter Baker and Co., Ltd.. A fresh-faced chamber maid carries a lacquer tray with a glass of a water and a Meissen porcelain cup filled with dark chocolate to the bedside of her mistress.

19 x 15 inches framed; 16 x 12.25 inches canvas

Purchased in 2005 at Park West Gallery, Registration No. 143870.0001. Private collection, Boston.

The painting was cleaned and reliened in 1984. Thin craquelure is visible, but very stable.

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