Circle of Nicolas Lancret (French, 1690-1743)
Rejected advances

oil on panel
Unframed: 41 x 29.5 cm. (16 1/8 x 11 6/8 in.) Framed: 46 x 36 cm. (18 1/8 x 14 1/8 in.)

Private Collection, London

The figures in the present work closely resemble the old man and young woman in Nicholas Lancret's Old Age, from the series; The Four Ages of Man. (The National Gallery, London, no. NG104).