Jean-Baptiste MALLET (Grasse, 1759 - Paris, 1835) The Bride's Toilet, 1815 Canvas Signed and dated lower right: "Mallet / 1815 32,7 x 40,5 cm Provenance: - Sotheby's sale, London, March 16, 1966, no. 37 (sold for £2,000 to M.S. Creswell). - London, Wildenstein Gallery. - Raine Spencer, Countess Spencer, née Mc Corquodale (1929-2016). Exhibitions : - Consulate, Empire, Restoration. Art in early XIXth century France, June 17-July 27 1981, Wildenstein, London - Un soufflé d'amour: an exhibition to celebrate the Feast of St. Valentine, February 1-March 30, 1995, Wildenstein, London. - London, Wildenstein, Life and Love: Post-Revolution: an exhibition to celebrate the Feast of St. Valentine, 14 February-27 March 1996, Wildenstein, London. Related work : Engraved by Louis-Ambroise Garnerey (Garneray), at Basset in Paris, under the title La Toilette de la mariée, exhibited at the 1819 Salon (gold medal), as a counterpart to La Bénédiction paternelle.