Suiveur de Nicolas LANCRET (1690-1743), d'après... Lot n° 41

The fortunate occasion. Oil on panel. 27 x 37 cm. Wooden frame and gilded plaster with rocaille decoration (accidents, small missing parts). This composition was engraved by Scotin II around 1718-1729 after a lost work by Nicolas Lancret, corresponding to the Charmes de la conversation (see G. Wildenstein, Lancret, Paris, 1924, n° 275, reproduced fig. 70). The engraving was accompanied by the lines: "In the shade of these woods to dance in her turn Iris stretches out her lovely hand to her shepherd Tirsis to take advantage of the favourable moment Shakes it and declares her love to him at once...."