Plate with scene from "Les Oies de Frère Philippe"
ca. 1745
Medium
Porcelain
Dimensions
Overall (confirmed): 7/8 × 9 × 9 in. (2.2 × 22.9 × 22.9 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Porcelain-Export
Culture
Chinese, made for export
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 2016
Accession Number
2016.114
Tags
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 ...