The Servant Justified ca. 1740 Nicolas Lancret French A wayward husband pursues a servant girl but, realizing he has been observed by a woman in a window, he changes course. He invites his wife to engage in a dalliance in the garden and creates, thereby, an alibi. The story comes from Jean de La Fontaines Fables, which enjoyed enormous success in eighteenth-century France. This painting is one of nine oils on copper that Lancret painted based on La Fontaine (another hangs nearby), which were engraved during the 1730s and 1740s.. The Servant Justified. Nicolas Lancret (French, Paris 1690-1743 Paris). ca. 1740. Oil on copper. Paintings
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