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François-Louis Lanfant de Metz artwork • painting • previously for sale The lesson

Lanfant de Metz F.L.  | François-Louis Lanfant de Metz, The lesson, oil on panel 22.2 x 15.6 cm, signed l.r.

François-Louis Lanfant de Metz

The lesson
oil on panel 22.2 x 15.6 cm, signed l.r.

This painting was previously for sale.

Pupil of Arie Scheffer and then genre painter, usually with small children as subject. Such paintings depicting children, cheerfully engrossed in their play or imitating the world of adults, were extremely popular in the last century. The genre originated in the children's portraits of Greuze and Thomas Laurence and had imitators all over Europe, such as - in this case - Lanfant de Metz in France, Jan Marie ten Kate in Holland and August Heyn in Germany.


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