La nuit et le moment, ou les matinées de Cythere (The Night and the Right Time, or the Mornings of Cythera) is by the eighteenth-century writer Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, usually known as Crébillon fils to distinguish him from his dramatist father. In this witty 1755 dialogue the questioning Clitandre comes to Cidalise’s chamber to discuss his relationship problems with her; she is surprised by his arrival, but quickly warms to the subject as she is having similar issues of her own. Thus in the course of one night, a man and a woman, each in love with somebody else, gradually warm to each other until they forget past pleasures in present passions. Satire, irony, word play and scandal abound.

La nuit et le moment is a text that suits Calbet's refined sensuous style perfectly, combining delicate fluid line with a painterly softness that lends his figures an intimate presence. He succeeds in balancing elegance with discreet eroticism, using subtle gesture and composition to evoke the growing relationship between Clitandre and Cidalise.

La nuit et le moment was published by La Tradition, Paris, in a limited numbered edition of 500 copies.