
Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
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After the engraving "Habit de Scapin" by François Joullain in Luigi Riccoboni's Histoire du Théâtre Italien, 1728. The figure is listed in Reinicke's work notes for July 1744: "1. Scapin, 7 zoll hoch, zur Italienischer Comödie, in Thon bossirt" [1 Scapin, 7 zoll high, for the Italian Comedy, repaired in clay]. See Meredith Chilton, Harlequin Unmasked, 2001, p. 308, cat. 101.
Further examples were sold at Bonhams London, 3 December 2008, lot 227, and 13 May 2009, lot 124.