Literature: Bocher 47; IFF 3:123.
Provenance: Gallery Paul Prouté, Paris (Gallery’old lable on the back).

Beautiful crisp impression with full margins around deeply impressed platemark on heavy laid watermarked paper. Watermark: Double-headed eagle (Heawood 1316).
La Serinette was Chardin’s first royal commission from Louis XV, for which he received a payment of 1,500 livres. Cars’s print is dedicated to Marquis de Vandières, brother of Madame de Pompadour, into whose collection the painting eventually went. The print was described at length in the Mercure de France (November 1753), including the statement: ‘when two artists of this calibre are united, one announces their work with great boldness’.