Rare miniature by Nicolas Lavreince said Lafrensen, cira 1790, date in which the artist left Paris for Stockholm, running away from the French Revolution.

Is this miniature  one of the last works by Lavreince in the French capital ? Or was it painted  in Stockholm ? We know that the artist, during the Revolution, had to abandon the playful subjects which had made him famous. Then he made  miniatures real portraits with which little are known, for the moment. Doubtless are they still in Swedish private collections.

Our miniature offers an intimate scene, full of many details. A young woman sews, sat near her fireplace. We see there smoking embers lighting pairs of tweezers, hung on in the hearth. On the edge a porcelain cup, smoking too, near a candelabra. Around the Lady, her boxes of laces, of flowers of tissue, her scissors are on the "bouillotte" table next to her.

The model wears a lace headgear on which is put a small hat wrapped of red ribbon. This hairstyle can be exactly dated of 1790, we find it in the portrait of the actress Louise Contat by Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin, portrait signed and dated 1790.

Signed inside : peint par Lavreince (painted by Lavreince)