Le jeune evéillé or Soldat revenant de campagne avec un congé de semester (Awakening Young Love)
Clement Le Mercier (fl.1738 - 1756)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1756 (exh)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
635 x 760 mm
Place of origin
France
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 515478
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Le Jeune evéillé or Soldat revenant de campagne avec un congé de semester (Awakening Young Love) by Clement, Lemercier (fl. 1738 - 1756), 1756. Recruit making love to servant girl watched by man at window, cottage interior, cat and dog left foreground.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents.
Credit line
Anglesey Abbey, The Fairhaven Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Clement Le Mercier (fl.1738 - 1756), artist