Study for Old Age
Nicolas Lancret
c. 1732
Medium
Black and white chalk on brown laid paper
Dimensions
16.8 × 24.7 cm (6 5/8 × 9 3/4 in.)
Classification
chalk
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113805
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 ...