Musées de Langres – Maison des Lumières Denis Diderot – Musée d'Art et d'Histoire

This painting is a second version of an eponymous composition presented by Gabriel François Doyen at the Salon du Louvre in 1759. It is the “piece” that the artist presented for his reception at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture on 23 August 1759. Denis Diderot saw the painting when he visited the Salon in 1759, but did not write about it. The Académie played a major role in Parisian artistic life. Exhibitions of its members’ recent works were held every two years in the Louvre’s Salon carré.