In search of Lebel: two attractive eighteenth-century fetes galantes in the National Gallery of Ireland are signed simply 'J. Lebel', an otherwise unidentified French painter. Martin Eidelberg sifts through the many artists with that surname and proposes a solution to the puzzle

Apollo, Sept, 2004 by Martin Eidelberg

(20) Daniel Wildenstein (ed.), Documents inedits sur les artistes francais du central. Paris, 1966. p. 86.

(21) Ibid.

Martin Eidelberg is Professor Emeritus of Art history at Rutgers University. New Jersey. He was co-organiser of the exhibition Watteau et al Fete Galante' which was held at the Musee deas Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes, this spring.