The Garter is an oil on canvas painting by French painter Jean-François de Troy, from 1724.

[1] The painting, like others by de Troy, is erotically charged, and depicts a scene of intimacy in a finely decorated room, between a couple, possibly of lovers that, judging by their fine clothing, are from the nobility.

At her left, a book lies on a table, where also stands a nude classical female statuette.

At the left a fine clock, decorated with a seated statuette of Saturn at his bottom, in a style similar to the work of the furniture designer André-Charles Boulle, stands in a bookshelf.

[1][2] Mary Salzman states about this painting: "In The Garter, the nude female statuette and the clock disclose that the young woman, though initially resistant, will allows herself to be seduced.