A priest taking morning tea with a lady in her boudoir: a maidservant stands in the background. Engraving by Remi Parr after N. Lancret.

  • Lancret, Nicolas, 1690-1743.
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A priest taking morning tea with a lady in her boudoir: a maidservant stands in the background. Engraving by Remi Parr after N. Lancret. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced April 2023 : A fashionable gentleman taking morning tea with a lady in her boudoir: a maidservant stands in the background. Etching, late 18th century.

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"In this, the first of Lancret's Four times of day, a priest attends a young lady as she takes her breakfast and gets dressed. The clock records the time as 9.08 am. The young woman, her breast exposed, has turned away from her dressing table to pour hot water into the priest’s teacup. As the pair look directly at each other, the priest risks his hand being scalded – perhaps a visual metaphor for the risk to his soul."--National Gallery website, 2023

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[London] (Black Horse in Cornhill) : printed for John Bowles & Son

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1 print : engraving, with etching ; platemark 26.4 x 36.6 cm

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Morning

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Wellcome Collection 25252i

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After an engraving by Nicolas de Larmessin IV (1741) after a painting by Nicolas Lancret that was bequeathed by Sir Bernard Eckstein to the National Gallery London in 1948

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