French School, circa 1780

Anonymous sale, Auxerre, Auxerre Enchères, 4 September 2022, lot 138, (as Antoine Renou);

Where acquired by the current owner.

Although this work bears a signature identifying it as the work of the classicist Antoine Renou (1731–1806), it shares more in common with the work of Jean-Frédéric Schall (1752–1825), an artist who excelled in producing erotically charged interior scenes in late eighteenth-century France.