Rococo school (c. 1760) - The Parrot Thief

- Oil on canvas. Original canvas backed.

- This magnificent work, which formerly formed part of the ornamental program of a Parisian hôtel particulier around the mid-18th century, stands as an eloquent testimony to gallant aesthetics. The liberality of its pictorial language, which shuns the solemnity of grand historical narratives to consecrate itself to capturing a fleeting and trivial moment within nature, reveals a sensibility tilted toward the sensory and the contingent.

The composition is inscribed in an architecture that not only delineates but also beats with life: a setting where straight lines yield to the empire of the moulding points and the sinuosity of the curve. The display of cornucopias and rocaille, which seem to germinate from the very support, denounces with its organic exuberance the full maturity of the Rococo. In this piece, artificery and life intertwine in a dialogue of academic elegance, turning mere decoration into an exegesis of visual pleasure.

- Image dimensions without frame: 118 x 98 cm / 134 x 107 cm with the original Baroque cabinetry mounting from the period.

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