A Brawl in a Guard-room Size:extra large Unrecorded in his diary

Unrecorded in his diary

An eighteenth-century pastiche related to these portraits was sold at London

and hath expressed with admirable art every circumstance about her

According to a catalogue of the Hollis collection

A Brawl in a Guard-room Size:extra large Unrecorded in his diaryBourdon trained as a painter in Paris and spent some time as a soldier before making a trip to Rome in 1634, where he was influenced by Pieter van Laer and his followers (the 'Bamboccianti'). In 1637 he returned to Paris via Venice. He was a founder member of the French Acadmie in 1648 and worked at the court of Queen Christina in Sweden (1652 4) and in Montpellier (1656 7), before settling again in Paris. Bourdon's work is stylistically diverse; in