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The Dispatch of the Messenger
The Dispatch of the Messenger

Date : 1765

Dimensions : 27 cm x 32 cm
Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Gift of Mrs. Joseph Heine, in memory of her husband, I. D. Levy (1944)
Salon des Artistes français
Item 2 on 14
French Painting
Painting (Scène extérieure)

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France



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This painting was exhibited at the Salon of 1765, with three others, now lost. Two of which were rectangular. A second oval depicted the arrival of the dove carrying a love letter. In one of the two rectangular canvases, the shepherdess read the letter to her confidante, and the other showed the meeting of the lovers. Diderot praised the four paintings as "a charming little poem," but he condemned the falsity of the genre, comparing it to country life as represented in French opera.

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The Dispatch of the Messenger
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