Keywords: French School, Genre Scene, Interior Scene, Rococo Revival, Oil On Copper, Figurative Art, Ancien Régime, French Painting, Salon Interior

Summary:
Nicolas Lavreince (attributed) - The Confiding Maid, Oil Painting on Copper.The artist's detail work in the painting is extaordinary. On the reverse is a signaature or inscription that we could not make out.

Niklas (Niclas) Lafrensen, also known as Nicolas Lavreince or Lavrince, was a Swedish draftsman and painter born in Stockholm in 1737. He was the son of the Swedish miniaturist Niklas (Niclas) Lafrensen dit le Vieux, and became a pupil of his father. Lafrensen initially focused on miniature painting before moving to Paris in 1771, where he painted small portraits in watercolor and oil. He was appointed a member of the Academy of Stockholm and court painter in 1773, but returned to Paris in 1774, inspired spirit of the end of the Ancien Régime. He returned to Stockholm after 1791.

Measurement: 11 3/4 x 8 5/8 in. (29.8 x 21.9 cm.) approx

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