A replica of the picture commissioned in 1745 and delivered in 1746 to Crown Princess Louisa Ulrika of Sweden, now in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. The subject was originally intended to illustrate Morning in an uncompleted series of The Times of the Day, and is typical of the elegant, contemporary interior scenes painted by Boucher between 1739 and 1746. The Wallace Collection’s picture was probably painted c.1746, before the prime version left the artist’s studio. Although competent, it lacks the vivacity of the original, and was described as ‘after Boucher’ in the sale catalogue of its first owner, S.-P. Prousteau, in 1769. Nevertheless, it served as a model for an engraving by Gaillard in 1755, where it received the title 'La marchande des modes'.