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Description: Arched rectangular shape with sloped spandrels; stepped fillet-moulded edging; pictorial scene of a behatted woman and a girl standing behind a kneeling cloaked figure of a man wearing a pointed cap and holding an open book, with a cross above it; to the left a cottage with trees and ground; to the right the frame of a building.
Notes: The scene is entitled 'Frère Luce', copied from an engraving by Nicolas Larmessin III (1656-1725), of a painting (now lost) by Nicolas Vleughels (1668-1737), from 'Suites d'Estampes Nouvelles pour les Contes de La Fontaine' (c.1736-43).
Copies of this fireback are known.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with round arch (shape)
- stepped fillet (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- humans
- plants
- objects
Manufactured: in the mid- to late-18th century in France.
Current location: in private hands, not known.
Citation: Carpentier, H., 1912, Plaques de Cheminées (Paris, published by the author).
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous pattern firebacks
