Painting - Oil On Canvas - Portrait - France - 17th Century

Oil on canvas depicting a young woman tenderly holding a small white rabbit, in a bucolic setting of mountains and cloudy skies. The work embodies the sensitivity and gentleness characteristic of female portraits from the late 17th and early 18th centuries, with a delicate palette, graceful features, and an elegant and intimate composition. The expressive gaze of the young woman, slightly turned towards the viewer, as well as the maternal gestures with the animal, evoke the allegories of innocence or purity, highly prized in Baroque and pre-Romantic art. The floral attachment in the hair and the red ribbon at the waist add a note of refinement, typical of aristocratic or gallant portraits of this period. France late 17th early 18th