The New Model

The New Model (French: Les Débuts du modèle) (The Model's Début or The Model's First Session) is a c. 1770 oil-on-canvas painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, acquired by Édouard André before his marriage and now in the Musée Jacquemart-André.

[1] The middle-aged man standing on the right side is the painter holding a stick, the paint brush.

Her bare chest is a sign of her willingness to cooperate in this incestuous scenario.

This painting can be compared to Fragonard's The Swing where an older man orchestrates the encounter of two young lovers.

[2] This article about an eighteenth-century painting is a stub.