Swing - Nicolas Lancret

Painting Detail

Swing
Artist: Nicolas Lancret
Medium: Painting, Oil on canvas, 99x132 cm
Date: 1730s
Genre: Genre Painting
Source: Rumyantsev Museum, Moscow, 1933

Nicolas Lancret (22 January 1690 - 14 September 1743), French painter, was born in Paris, and became a brilliant depicter of light comedy which reflected the tastes and manners of French society under the regent Orleans.

His first master was Pierre d'Ulin, but his acquaintance with and admiration for Watteau induced him to leave d'Ulin for Gillot, whose pupil Watteau had been. Lancret, who remained a pupil of Gillot from 1712–1713, was heavily influenced by the older painter, whose typical slender figures can be found in many of his pupil's younger works.