oil on canvas, relined; signed and dated "Eugen Blaas 1872" lower right Sight: 33 x 55 1/2 in. (83.8 x 141 cm.), Frame: 42 3/4 x 65 1/4 in. (108.6 x 165.7 cm.) Note: a watercolor by Blaas depicting a very similar scene, titled "A Celebration in the Palazzo", sold at Dorotheum, Vienna, February 19, 2019 [lot 10] Provenance: Kurt E. Schon Fine Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1989 (label verso); Private Collection, Southern California;

Canvas relined. Approximately nine or ten small (less than one inch) areas of in-painting scattered throughout (none affecting the figure's faces). A larger area fluorescing under UV light, possibly indicating in-painting, in the lower right corner including part of the date, but not affecting the signature.