Two Studies of Reclining Youth
early 18th century
Medium
Red chalk, heightened with a little white, on beige paper
Dimensions
7 3/4 x 6 1/4 in. (19.7 x 15.9 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. O'Donnell Hoover, 1959, subject to life interest.
Accession Number
59.205
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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 ...