The Servant Justified
Nicolas Lancret
ca. 1740
Medium
Oil on copper
Dimensions
11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Walter and Leonore Annenberg and The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 2004
Accession Number
2004.85
Tags
MenWomen
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 ...