Oil On Canvas Of XVIIIth Century: Young Girl Playing Music With Her Dog Knowing

French school of the second half of the eighteenth century.
XXth Framework with a new canvas.

"Little girl playing the hurdy-gurdy dog ​​in a harlequin suit".
Measures: 43 x 86.5 cm; 60 x 100 cm with the frame.

We see in this genre scene a little girl dressed in shepherdess clothes, lying in a bucolic landscape.
She plays the hurdy-gurdy near a fountain in the antique style while her little dog, dressed with Harlequin's clothes, stands on her two hind legs and seems to dance.
It is an image rather suggestive of the taste of the eighteenth century, which combines an idealized painting of manners, pastoral subjects and children dressed as shepherds or shepherdesses with a landscape treatment in the minds of Boucher, giving An evocative atmosphere and at the same time comprising a rigorous, idealized composition.

It is a very pretty painting even if the subject remains rather naive, by its proportions one could think of a door top.

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