When Jean Tardieu, the son of the visionary Victor Tardieu, received a request to write an article for the special Christmas issue in 1932 of "L'Illustration" (which was the most famous French magazine of that time), he decided to present four paintings of Nguyen Phan Chanh. All of them had been sent to France in 1931 to promote the new field of Vietnamese pictorial art. The collection included: "La Sorcière", "La Jeune Fille Lavant des Légumes", the one he erroneously titled "Les ébats des enfants" and "L' Enfant à l'oiseau".

The magazine made sure all of the collectors, these visionary buyers of the presented masterpieces, were named. In particular Mr Pierre Massé, Dr Montel and Dr Morax for our painting.

Victor Tardieu understood that if he wanted his pupils to be publicly recognized, he knew that the strong institutional decisive impulse by the creation of Fine Art School of Indochina in Hanoi in 1924 was not enough, and he also needed to create a strong relationship with the true connoisseurs. Many exhibitions were organized within the School of Fine Art, along with the encouragement of diverse institutions to bring together artists and art lovers. This is how Christie's had the honour, to propose many works from the Tholance-Lorenzi's collection, a former Upper Resident of Tonkin up to 1937, when they had to return to France.