BIDAULD, JEAN JOSEPH XAVIER (Carpentras 1758 - 1846 Montmorency) Italian landscape with group of dancers in the foreground. Oil on paper laid on canvas. Verso with inscription on label: "Pido, eine Landschaft, geschätzt von [Marquard] Wocher" Later corrected by the art historian Prof. Friedrich Müller to Joseph Xavier Bidault. Label on centre top of frame: "30 Frau Pfarrer Sarasin / 2 Oehlgemälde". 37.4 x 49.2 cm. Provenance: In the collection of the Basel family Forcart and Sarasin and their descendents continuously since 1834 - 1834 Esther Forcart-Weiss and Johann Rudolf Forcart (1749 - 1834). - Via inheritance to Johanna und Theodor Sarasin-Bischoff, Basel. - Today, via inheritance to a Swiss private collection