After Nicolas Lancret 'A FEMME AVARE, GALANT ESCROC' oil on oak panel This work represents the ballad from 1666 by Jean de la Fontaine: 'A femme avare, galant escroc' ('the lover for a stingy woman is a swindler'), itself based on a thirteenth-century short story by the great Italian poet and Humanist, Giovanni Boccaccio The original painting by Nicolas Lancret is an oil on copper, 28 x 36 cm., today in the Pushkin Museum, Moscow (inv. no. Ж-982), datable to ' circa ' 1740–50. 1 The present picture is in the opposite sense to Lancret's work, since it derives from the popular engraving made after the painting by Nicolas de Larmessin (1684–1755). 2 The engraving includes the verses: 'Rayez les cent Louis prétés: car A Madame / Hier, devant temoins, je les ay bien rendus: / l'Epoux enrageroit encor plus que la femme, / S'il scavoit a quel titre elle les a recus.' 1 http://www.arts- museum.ru/data/fonds/europe_and_america/j/2001_3000/6605_Skupoy_zhenschine___ lyubovnik_plut/index.php?lang=en 2 http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.as px?objectId=1618028&partId=1&searchText=lancret+femme+avare&page=1 Unframed: 28.8 x 37 cm.; 11 3/4 x 14 1/2 in. Framed: 47.5 x 55 cm.; 18 5/8 x 21 5/8 in.
After Nicolas Lancret 'A FEMME AVARE, GALANT ESCROC' oil on oak panel This work represents the ballad from 1666 by Jean de la Fontaine: 'A femme avare, galant escroc' ('the lover for a stingy woman is a swindler'), itself based on a thirteenth-century short story by the great Italian poet and Humanist, Giovanni Boccaccio The original painting by Nicolas Lancret is an oil on copper, 28 x 36 cm., today in the Pushkin Museum, Moscow (inv. no. Ж-982), datable to ' circa ' 1740–50. 1 The present picture is in the opposite sense to Lancret's work, since it derives from the popular engraving made after the painting by Nicolas de Larmessin (1684–1755). 2 The engraving includes the verses: 'Rayez les cent Louis prétés: car A Madame / Hier, devant temoins, je les ay bien rendus: / l'Epoux enrageroit encor plus que la femme, / S'il scavoit a quel titre elle les a recus.' 1 http://www.arts- museum.ru/data/fonds/europe_and_america/j/2001_3000/6605_Skupoy_zhenschine___ lyubovnik_plut/index.php?lang=en 2 http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.as px?objectId=1618028&partId=1&searchText=lancret+femme+avare&page=1 Unframed: 28.8 x 37 cm.; 11 3/4 x 14 1/2 in. Framed: 47.5 x 55 cm.; 18 5/8 x 21 5/8 in.
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