La Camargo Dancing
Nicolas Lancret
c. 1730
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 76.2 x 106.7 cm (30 x 42 in.) framed: 107.3 x 135.9 x 9.2 cm (42 1/4 x 53 1/2 x 3 5/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Accession Number
1937.1.89
About the Artist
Nicolas Lancret
Nicolas Lancret (1690–1743) was a leading French painter of the Rococo era, celebrated for his elegant fêtes galantes — intimate scenes of fashionable figures at leisure in idyllic garden settings — that placed him among the most admired artists working in Paris in the first half of the eighteenth century. Born in Paris, he trained initially under the history painter Pierre d'Ulin before entering ...