Oil on canvas depicting a harvest. XVIIIth century. LS55511709

Oil on canvas depicting a picking scene, or genre scene, in a rural atmosphere, some characters picking fruit, others holding flowers in their hands.
A character balancing on his ladder picks a fruit from a tree and holds a basket, another prepares to pick it up if he holds it out to him or if it falls.
In the centre of the composition, a lady or an elegant woman and a man hold small bouquets of flowers, which seems to animate the two other figures surrounding them, the man also holding a rake.
In the foreground, we can see a wicker basket loaded with flowers.
On the left of the composition, we can see a terracotta orange tree tub.
In the background, we can see the tower of a castle or a keep, round in shape, as well as a stormy sky.
Two trees punctuate the composition.

The characters are dressed in typical clothes XVIIIe, men wearing buttoned jackets, silk stockings and flat shoes with buckles and women dresses, bodices and high-heeled pumps or mules.

Finely beaded gilded wooden frame, in the typical Louis style XVI.

Period French work XVIIIth century.

Dimensions: H 187 x W 124 x D 4 cm

Reference: LS55511709