Enigma "Smokers"

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At one western auction before the auction but walked the halls and drew attention to the picture. She seemed familiar to me. Well, friend and friend ... Who knows ...
And at the auction during the bidding of its exhibit, I'm in the catalog and paid no attention. And no, I'm betting, and raised a card bought.
He brought home and found the same "Smokers" in the Hermitage.
Author-Meissonier Jean-Louis-Ernest.
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/fcgi-...31 & y = 3
Received picture in the Hermitage in 1922 from IAH Kushelevskoy gallery in St. Petersburg. But the one on the tree, and my canvas.
Copy, I think. Size-one in one. 20x12.
So what.
The catalog pictures Tsarevich Nicholas was also a copy of this.
http://feb-web.ru/feb/rosarc/vka/vka-602-.htm
In the list for the number 336.
But everywhere they write that the author did a lot of repetition of his "Smokers."
Maybe, and I repeat? A?
The last picture (unframed) from GE.
Sorry for the quality of photos, I can not, I confess.
http://gatchina3000.ru/brockhaus-and.../065/65704.htm