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Nicolas Lancret

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Lancret, Nicolas 

Born Jan. 22, 1690, in Paris; died there Sept. 14, 1743. French rococo painter.

Lancret was strongly influenced by A. Watteau. In 1719 he was received into the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture as a master of fêtes galantes. Lancret also painted landscapes, theater and genre scenes, and portraits. His works include The Dancer Camargot (c. 1730, Hermitage, Leningrad), Concert in the Park (Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow), and The Music Lesson (Louvre, Paris). Lancret’s paintings are noted for a refined, somewhat pale palette, a decorative, soft painterly manner, and an occasionally superficial treatment of the subject matter (particularly apparent when compared with the works of A. Watteau).

REFERENCE

Wildenstein, G. Lancret: Biographie et catalogue critique. Paris, 1924.
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Less translunary and less profound are the Pastoral Scene of Boucher, who revered Watteau, and The Swing by Nicolas Lancret, who was Watteau's pupil.
Cupid at the Hermitage by Bruce, Donald / Contemporary Review
This sometimes took outlandish form, as when the Duc d'Antin (who was then in charge of all royal patronage) commissioned Warteau's follower Nicolas Lancret to depict Louis XV's Polish-born bride and her entourage bogged down in the mud on the way to her wedding in 1725: The painter was instructed just how to represent the various humiliations of the ladies-in-waiting and to "include the most grotesque and messy details he can.
Domestic bliss: Thomas Crow on "The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and ... by Crow, Thomas / Artforum International
 
 
 
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