Studies of a Couple Seated on the Ground, Looking at a Songbook
ca. 1740
Medium
Red, black, and white chalk on light gray-brown paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 1/4 x 14 9/16 in. (26 x 37 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift and Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2012
Accession Number
2012.107
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 ...