Hunter and Young Woman resting in a Landscape with a Hunter aiming his Gun at a passing Flock of Birds, and Hunters on Horseback conversing with a Shepherdess spinning a pair of paintings Hunter and Young Woman resting in a Landscape with a Hunter aiming his Gun at a passing Flock of Birds, and Hunters on Horseback conversing with a Shepherdess spinning a pair of paintings.
The present pair of paintings was commissioned in by M. While these were painted for the large dining room, the commission consisted of four other paintings; a pair of 'pastorales' for the adjoining small dining room and a port scene and 'Colin-Maillard' for the 'cabinet du Roi'.
All six pictures were lost, presumably dispersed following the Revolution, until the recent discovery of the present pair. In Engerand's inventory of works commissioned in the 18th Century by the Director of the King's buildings, loc. Boyer, loc. It is probably around this time that the paintings left Fontainebleau. Boyer also states erroneously that all six paintings were exhibited at the Salon of The dimensions of the works, as noted by Enger and and subsequently Boyer 1.
It is not all unusual, though, that the paintings should have lost several centimeters, having been removed from a decorative framing which may have included 'boiseries' at the edges. Rosenberg and F. Bergot, organized and circulated by the International Exhibitions Foundation, , no.
The above painting will be included in J.
