#nicolas lancret

[allegorypaintings]

An Allegory of Summer, Gardeners Watering a Flower Bed

Artist: Nicolas Lancret (French, 1690-1743)

[galleryofart]

The Beautiful Greek Woman

Artist: Nicolas Lancret (French, 1690–1743)

Date: 1731-1736

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

[cheminer-poesie-cressant]

(Nicolas Lancret, fête galante, détail, époque Louis XV, huile sur toile, fondation Bemberg, Toulouse, source : @cheminer-poesie-cressant)

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Au centre de mon jardin,

j'ai planté l'arbre du soleil

et mon jardin s'est ouvert.

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(Dans la portée des ombres, extrait)

© Pierre Cressant

(lundi 10 octobre 2005)

[artemlegere]

Brother Philippe's Geese

Artist: Nicolas Lancret (French, 1690–1743)

Date: ca. 1736

Medium: Oil on copper

Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States

Description

Jean de La Fontaine’s Fables include the story of the widower Philippe, who adopts a hermit’s robes and retreats to a mountain cave where he and his son live free from temptation. Eventually, however, Philippe takes his son out into the world and they encounter a party of young women. When the youth asks about them, his father says they are “a party of geese.” “Father, I beg you, let us take one [with us].” Lancret indicated the women’s elevated social status by including the likely enslaved African servant who shades them with a parasol.

[gogmstuff]

Early 1730s dresses and portraits (from top to bottom) -

ca. 1732 The Beautiful Greek (La Belle Grecque) by Nicolas Lancret (Wallace Collection - London, UK). From their Web site 1429X1960, The complex sleeves open at the top like they would in Russian court dresses a century later.

ca. 1732 Watson-Wentworth and Finch Families by Charles Philips (Yale Center for British Art, Yale University - New Haven, Connecticut, USA) persons. From Wikimedia 4902X3094. The décolletage-filling fichu would become prominent in the Louis XVI era, but just about every grown up woman wears one along with a fastened bodice, round skirt, and apron. The heads of every female are covered by a cap, veil, or hat.

1733 Marie-Geneviève le Tonnellier de Breteuil by French school (attributed to Alexis Simon Belle) (auctioned by Sala de Ventas).From invaluable.com/auction-lot/18th-century-french-school-alexis-simon-belle-a-646-c-2074af1b03 1940X3362.Round skirts flourish on both shores of the channel.

ca. 1730-1735 Lady by Joseph Highmore (National Gallery of Art - Washington, DC, USA). From their Web site 1148X1495. The cuffed outer sleeves are stuffed by under-sleeves and the dress lining has a very subdued pink contrasting with the gold color of the other layer.

1734 Princess Sophie Dorothea with Friedrich Wilhelm by Antoine Pesne (location ?). From Wikimedia1633X2611. Textiles with large patterns characterize the early 1700s. Her dress has a square neckline.suggesting French influence.

ca. 1734 Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth by Antoine Pesne (location ?). From Wikimedia 829X11221. The silver brocade over-bodice has a deep V neckline filled in with scoop neckline.

1734 Madame Marie du Tour Vuillard (1695- 1759), née Robin by Louis Michel Van Loo (Tajan - 12-12-12 auction Lot 37), From their Web site; fixed spots & flaws w Pshop 2487X3151.

[classic-art-favourites]

La Camargo Dancing by Nicolas Lancret, 1730.

Context: depiction of Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo, a french dancer.

[artschoolglasses]

Pastoral Revels, Nicolas Lancret, 1738

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Nicolas Lancret, Fête galante

Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbonne

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La Camargo Dancing by Nicolas Lancret - 1730

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Nicolas Lancret (1690 - 1743)

Lancret (self-portrait) Imaginea este un portret al lui Nicolas Lancret, un pictor francez rococo.  Pictura este realizată în ulei pe pânză și îl înfățișează pe Lancret într-o ipostază de trei sferturi, ținând o paletă și pensule.  Poartă o jachetă visiniu și o cămașă albă cu guler de dantelă.  Părul lui este coafat într-o perucă pudrată.  Fundalul este de un maro închis, ceea ce ajută la…

[portrait-paintings]

Portrait of the Actor Grandval

Artist: Nicolas Lancret (French, 1689–1743

Date: circa 1752

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana

Description

Lancret's interest in the stage, evident in his insightful portraits of actors and dancers, may derive from his early training in the studio of Claude Gillot, director of scene designs and costumes for the Paris Opera. In this portrait of the actor Grandval, one of the best known performers of 18th-century Paris, Lancret alludes to his renowned ability to perform both tragic and comic roles. Grandval stands in an imaginary garden in front of a statuary group that represents Thalia, the Muse of Comedy, and Melpomene, the Muse of Tragedy.

[famousdeaths]

Nicolas Lancret was a French painter. Born in Paris, he was a brilliant depicter of light comedy which reflected the tastes and manners of French society during...

Link: Nicolas Lancret

[galleryofart]

Lovers in a Landscape (The Turtle Doves)

Artist: Nicolas Lancret (French, 1689–1743)

Date: c. 1736

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, England

Description

A young man gazes at his elegantly-dressed partner and points to a pair of turtle doves.

The birds are the perfect model of faithful lovers who reciprocate their feelings with tenderness. The couple’s romantic encounter in an idyllic landscape is not therefore a scene of seduction, but an image of true love soon to be fulfilled. Lancret was a follower of Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) who popularised what is known as the fête galante – an amorous gathering of elegantly dressed figures in an idealised landscape. This was the first painting purchased by the Barber Institute.

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Nicolas Lancret, The minuet

[leitoracomcompanhia]

Dias de festa

"Eram jogos, banquetes, passeios, caçadas, com aquelas centenas de homens , esquecidos das suas condições, e igualados nos mesmos prazeres e na mesma obediência, gozando as suas damas sem rivalidades, e eram bem uns dez para cada uma."

Jorge de Sena, "O Físico Prodigioso"; pintura de Nicolas Lancret.

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

art history moodboard – dance fever by florence + the machine

The Queen in “Hamlet” – Edwin Austin Abbey // Dance to the Music of Time – follower of Laurent de la Hyre // Play of the Nereides – Arnold Böcklin // // El Jaleo – John Singer Sargent // Vanity – Frank Cadogan Cowper // A Still Life of Tulips, Roses, Bluebells, a Peony, and Other Flowers in a Glass Roemer on a Wooden Ledge with a Dragonfly – Jacob van Hilsdonck // Ulysses and the Sirens – Herbert James Draper  // Marie Camargo – Nicolas Lancret // Cassandra – Evelyn De Morgan