Louis Eugène Boudin (French: 1825-1898).
A view from within the harbour looking out to the open sea "between the piers." Signed and dated "E. Boudin, '88," with the title on the back in the artist's handwriting, "Entre les jetées, Trouville." This picture by a fine sea-painter was presented by the National Art Collections Fund.
2081. LULLI AND HIS FELLOW MUSICIANS AT THE FRENCH COURT.
Hyacinthe Rigaud (French, 1659-1743). See 903.
Jean Baptiste de Lulli (or Lully) was the celebrated composer (1633-1687) for whose music Louis XIV. had a great predilection. For him the King created a new company of musicians called Les Petits Violons or La Bande des Seize. Lulli composed also the incidental music for Molière's plays. The portraits of Lulli, says a contemporary, are fairly like him, but he was smaller and stouter than they show.
2082. A FLORENTINE LADY; on the reverse, A SYMBOLIC ANGEL.
School of Botticelli (Florentine: 1447-1510). See 1034.
The portrait is supposed to represent the unknown artist's wife; the angel holds an armillary sphere.