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This painting is also known as Harvest.
Few French painter of the eighteenth century were more indecisive than Lagrenée, who was capable of shifting from the flowery allegory of Harvest (1769) to the gray classicism of The Visitation (1781). The prolific Lagrenée listened to everyone, and was alternatively treated by Diderot with harshness for his lack of ideas (Salon 1769) and extolled for the "charm" of his Mercury, Herse and Aglauros (Salon 1767). This made Lagrenée a particularly indulgent director of the French Academy in Rome from 1781 to 1787.
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