Paté d'Anguille
Medium
Red chalk, over traces of black chalk; squared in black chalk
Dimensions
10 11/16 x 13 15/16 in. (27.1 x 35.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bruno de Bayser, 2000
Accession Number
2000.91.4
Tags
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About the Artist
Nicolas Lancret|Gabriel de Saint-Aubin
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 ...