carved within a moulded frame with the figure of a banqueteer reclining to right on a couch with curved armrests and striped mattress, the bearded man wearing a himation over his lower body, resting his elbow on pillows and his chin on his left hand, and holding a kantharos to a cluster of grapes growing from a broad overhanging vine, a rounded tenon for insertion below.

André Lévy-Despas (d. 1974), Paris
Zeineb and Jean-Pierre Marcie-Rivière, Paris, 1992 (Christie’s, Paris, Zeineb et Jean-Pierre Marcie-Rivière : Grands collectionneurs et mécènes, June 8th-9th, 2016, no. 56, illus., as “dans le goût de l’antique”)

Very good. Remains of gesso over many areas of central panel, probably as coating for addition of now missing pigments.
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