Oil painting on canvas. Northern European school of the 18th century. The allegorical scene presents a scantily clad woman sitting on a man's lap, near a table set with a jug, a chalice, a snuffbox and a lit cigar. The two characters are in an attitude of playful complicity, both intent on smoking a long pipe. The background offers a leafy landscape. The figures and objects refer to the material and carnal pleasures of life, smoking, drinking, female company; the rosy and plump characters also recall the pleasure of good food.
These subjects were recurrent in Flemish or more generally Nordic painting, which proposed them in an ironic and alluring way.
The painting, restored and relined, is presented in a period frame.
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PLATINUM Seller in Milano, Italy
