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LANCRET, Nicolas
French painter (b. 1690, Paris, d. 1743, Paris).
French painter, draughtsman and collector. He was one of the most prolific and imaginative genre painters of the first half of the 18th century in France, and, although after his death he was long regarded as a follower and imitator of Antoine Watteau, his work is markedly personal and often innovative. He began training as an engraver but soon apprenticed himself to Pierre Dulin (1669-1748), a moderately successful history painter; by 1708 he had enrolled as a student at the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Paris. At an unknown date he entered the workshop of the genre and decorative painter Claude Gillot, who had been Watteau's master. This move signalled an important change of direction away from the history painting pursued by his friend Francois Lemoyne. Two contemporary biographers, Ballot de Sovot and D?zallier D'Argenville
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Painting ID:: 7793
The Bird Cage s
Oil on canvas, 44 x 48 cm
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
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Painting ID:: 7794
Mademoiselle de Camargo Dancing g
1730
Oil on canvas, 42 x 55 cm
Wallace Collection, London
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Painting ID:: 7795
Company in the Park g
Oil on canvas, 64,5 x 69,5 cm
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
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Painting ID:: 7796
Fete in a Wood s
1720-25
Oil on canvas, 64 x 91 cm
Wallace Collection, London
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Painting ID:: 7797
Luncheon Party sg
1735
Oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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LANCRET, Nicolas
French painter (b. 1690, Paris, d. 1743, Paris).
French painter, draughtsman and collector. He was one of the most prolific and imaginative genre painters of the first half of the 18th century in France, and, although after his death he was long regarded as a follower and imitator of Antoine Watteau, his work is markedly personal and often innovative. He began training as an engraver but soon apprenticed himself to Pierre Dulin (1669-1748), a moderately successful history painter; by 1708 he had enrolled as a student at the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Paris. At an unknown date he entered the workshop of the genre and decorative painter Claude Gillot, who had been Watteau's master. This move signalled an important change of direction away from the history painting pursued by his friend Francois Lemoyne. Two contemporary biographers, Ballot de Sovot and D?zallier D'Argenville
. Related Artists to LANCRET, Nicolas: | John Skinner Prout | Jan van Huijsum | Francisco Collantes | Jerome-Martin Langlois | Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts |
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