Painted by Charles-Nicholas Dodin with a scene on the cup of a Music Lesson taken from an engraving of a painting by C. van Loo. The painting had been created as an over-door for Madame de Pompadour’s salon de compagnie at the Château de Bellevue in 1753. With the factory mark enclosing the date letters AA for 1778, painter’s mark k for Dodin and gilder’s mark # for M-B Chauveaux.