le Pautre j.
a Paris chez N Langlois [n.d., c.1680s.] Avec privil[ege].
Engraving with early colour, thin watermarked laid paper; 165 x 235mm. 6½ x 9¼". Good margins.
A group of men eating at a table in a garden are entertained by dancers and music from a fiddler (right) and trumpet player (seated in foreground, far left). Numbered '2' lower right; from one of the albums of festivities published by Nicolas Langlois (1640 - 1703) .
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