Nicolas LANCRET (Paris 1690 - 1743) The Harvest Black stone and white chalk highlights on buff paper. Annotated at the top center "8 wives 4 feet 8 wives". (Irregular edges, small stains). 48 x 29,5 cm Provenance: Sotheby's sale, Old Master Drawings, London, June 5, 1993, no. 87a, pp. 51, reproduced. The standing figure on the left of our drawing can be found in a painting by Lancret entitled L'Été, now in the Louvre Museum INV 5598 (see: G. Wildenstein, Lancret, Paris, 1924, pl. 11, reproduced).