Two Elegant Women in Polish Dress
Nicolas Lancret
c. 1723
Medium
red, black, and white chalk on light brown paper
Dimensions
overall: 18.2 x 29.5 cm (7 3/16 x 11 5/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Myron A. Hofer in memory of his mother, Jane Arms Hofer
Accession Number
1944.9.1
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 ...