Nicolas Guy BRENET (Paris 1728 - 1792) Young woman lifting a veil Walnut panel, one board, not parqueted Signed and dated lower right "Brenet / 1776". 27 x 21.5 cm Inscribed on reverse "Brenet / 1728-1792 / pupil of Boucher". Provenance: - Possibly mentioned in "l'Inventaire des objets trouvés rue des veuneurs chez Ménage Pressigny condamné. 17 brumaire an III" (n°3 Une jeune fille levant son voile, vue à mi corps, hauteur 9 pouces 1/2. largeur. Po 1/2 on wood... (by Brenet)...150) ; - Collection of Mr. le baron d'Aubigny (according to a 19th century inscription on a paper on the reverse of the panel). Exhibition: Salon de 1777, n°21 (several paintings under the same number. See the sketch by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin in the margin of the Salon booklet). Bibliography: - M. Sandoz, "Nicolas-Guy Brenet, peintre d'histoire (1728-1792)", in Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français (1960), 1961, pp. 44 and 50 under note no. 3 (mention of Gabriel de Saint-Aubin's sketch in the Salon booklet); - M. Sandoz, Nicolas-Guy Brenet: 1728-1792, Paris, 1979, p. 109, no. 89 (mention of Gabriel de Saint-Aubin's sketch in the Salon booklet); - M. Fournier, Nicolas-Guy Brenet (1728-1792), Paris, 2023, n°*167P (painting lost). Marie Fournier compares our painting with her n°168P of the same dimensions and on the same support.