Nicolas Lancret
Nicolas Lancret | |
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Born | Paris, France | 22 January 1690
Died | Paris, France | 14 September 1743
Nationality | French |
Known for | Painting |
Nicolas Lancret (22 January 1690 – 14 September 1743) was a
Career
Lancret's first master was
Work, style and legacy
Lancret completed numerous paintings, a significant proportion of which (over eighty) were engraved. Although he completed several portraits and historical pieces his favourite subjects were balls, fairs, village weddings and so forth. In this respect he was typical of Rococo artists. Some have claimed Lancret's work is significantly inferior to that of Watteau. In drawing and in painting his touch is often considered intelligent but dry; art historian Michael Levey remarked that Lancret was 'no poet but a charming essayist'.[2] Lancret's characteristics are due possibly to the fact that he had been for some time in training under an engraver.
It is generally considered
The
Personal life
Lancret was single for much of his life; however in 1741 he married the 18-year-old grandchild of Boursault, author of Aesop at Court. Supposedly Lancret was induced to marry her after finding her and her dying mother living in poverty in an attic room and hearing that the daughter was soon to be compelled to enter a convent. Lancret died of pneumonia on 14 September 1743.
Gallery
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La Servante justifiée, 1735-1740
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Le jeu des quatre-coins
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Fastening the Skate, Nationalmuseum, 1743
References
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Lancret, Nicolas". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 153. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
- See d'Argenville, Vies des peintres; and Ballot de Sovot, Éloge de M. Lancret (1743, new ed. 1874).
- ISBN 9781848220430.
- ^ a b c d e f Michael Levey. Painting and Sculpture in France, 1700-1789. Yale University Press.
Further reading
General studies
Adapted from: Freitag, Wolfgang M. (1997) [1985]. Art Books: A Basic Bibliography of Monographs on Artists (2nd ed.). New York, London: Garland. p. 212, entries nos. 6415–6418.
- Bocher, Emmanuel (1877). Nicolas Lancret (catalogue raisonné). Les gravures françaises du XVIIIe siècle (in French). Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles. Gallica.
- Holmes, Mary Tavener (1991). Focarino, Joseph (ed.). Nicolas Lancret, 1690-1743 (exhibition catalogue). New York: Harry N. Abrams. LCCN 91010153 – via the Internet Archive.
- OCLC 1044628377– via the Internet Archive.
- OCLC 1088910286– via the Internet Archive.
Reference works
- ISBN 2-7000-3078-8– via the Internet Archive.
- OCLC 165485974.
- Holmes, Mary Tavener (1996). "Lancret, Nicolas". In Turner, Jane (ed.). OCLC 1033666240– via the Internet Archive.