Discovery of a painting by François-André Vincent

Yesterday we published a news item on a publication Images du Patrimoine illustrating the article with a painting presented as 17th-century which seemed to us to be more a work from the second half of the 18th century, French, and otherwise of excellent quality. We thus hoped to be able to find its attribution thanks to a reader.

The result was not long in coming: Jean-Pierre Cuzin called to tell us that he had recognised the hand of François-André Vincent, the painter whose catalogue raisonné he published with Arthena (see article). Better still, he told us…