Schetsen van een man, twee handen en een stuk draperie
Nicolas Lancret
1700 - 1745
Medium
paper
Dimensions
262; 191
About this artwork
inscription, recto, red chalk: ‘''bleu'' (tweemaal)’
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 ...