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Paintings and drawings from the 17th to the 19th century
Jeanne DABOS (Lunéville, 1765 - Paris, 1842).
The lazy worker.
Circa 1804.
Pil on panel.
H : 51 ; L : 41 cm.
Exhibited at the 1804 Salon, no. 112.
A young maid, who has interrupted her ironing session to read, is spied on by her angry mistress. This oil on panel was exhibited at the Salon of 1804, under no. 112: La paresseuse. The subject, first treated by Greuze, was also treated by Constance Charpentier with her Servante paresseuse, proof of her popularity among women artists.
A painter renowned for her charming genre paintings, Jeanne Dabos was born in Lunéville in 1765. She studied with Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, among others, before submitting her first drawings to the Salon de la Jeunesse in 1787. In 1789, she exhibited miniatures at the Toulouse Salon, and exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1791, before specializing in genre scenes, which she presented at the Salons from 1802 to 1835.
The painter enjoyed a certain notoriety during her lifetime, as evidenced by her portrait of Marie-Antoinette, which was engraved and reproduced by Phelippeaux, and a chalk and gouache drawing of the Dauphin, drawn at the Temple in 1792, which belonged to the Duchesse d'Angoulême.
