French school: Still life of fruits on a Chinese porcelain dish with a servant, oil on canvas, 17th C.

Work: 121,5 x 83,5 cm

Frame: 136 x 100 cm

Black domestic servants were in the 17th and 18th century often seen as a fashionable conspicuous sign of wealth. Remarkable examples are e.g. Charles Ignatius Sancho, Caesar Shaw, Francis Barber and Pero (link and link).