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Very large oil on canvas (2.10 m x 1.45 m), depicting a young woman leaning on a sculptor's easel, probably resting between two posing sessions.
Nude, adorned with gold and silver jewels, part of her body clothed in tulle hemmed with gold thread, she leans against a sculptor's easel on which stands a sculpture probably representing Leda and the swan?
At her feet, a large antique amphora decorated, among other things, with a woman playing the lyre, from which a bouquet of roses and gypsophila springs.
An oriental carpet covers the floor.
A beautiful impression of gentleness underlined by a high level of aestheticism.
Original canvas, stretcher and frame.
Signed lower left A.LAURENS, dated 1883.
Albert F.A. LAURENS, painter born in Lyon in April 1864.
French school. A pupil of Bonnat, he exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français.
cf. Bénézit, T.VI, p.479
Ref: YX41TIKXK3