Jean Siméon Chardin (1699-1779) (after) Little girl with cherries. About 1740, engraved by C. N. Cochin. 180x230mm. Bocher 44. Fine proof on laid paper, trimmed on the plate cut, carefully washed. Old inscriptions in blue ink on verso. Light traces of oxidation. Slight oblique crease in lower right corner. The original painting was exhibited at the Louvre in 1737, under the title Une petite fille assise s'amuser avec son déjeuné. It was part of the Henri de Rothschild collection, transported to Bath during the war, where it was destroyed, along with other works, by a German bomb in 1942.