
Anna Burnside
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Provenance
The Hon. Nellie Ionides Collection
Thence by descent
The source is a painting by Watteau, 'La Partie Quarrée'. The scene is ambiguous, as we do not know whether these are actors at rest or aristocrats in the guise of these well-known characters for a masked ball.