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Nicolas Lancret - Dance Before a Fountain (Paperback, New Ed)
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Nicolas Lancret - Dance Before a Fountain (Paperback, New Ed)
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Loot Price R585
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In a garden glade before a grand fountain, surrounded by a musical
party, an elegant woman in a lustrous white gown dances as part of
a foursome, raising her eyes to the viewer as if extending an
invitation to the dance. This is the enticing scene in the J. Paul
Getty Museum's painting "Dance before a Fountain" by Nicolas
Lancret (1690-1743), an excellent example of the fete galante, a
genre that was created and reached the peak of its popularity in
France during the first half of the eighteenth century. This
monograph seeks to familiarize American audiences with Lancret, a
master of this genre, who was a revered painter in his own time,
rivalling his contemporaries Antoine Watteau and Francois Boucher,
and a favourite of crowned heads across Europe. Mary Tavener
Holmes's engrossing text uses this painting as a springboard to
reveal a remarkable amount about the painter, his mode of painting,
Paris at the time this work was made, eighteenth-century dance, and
the world of art patronage and collecting in France and elsewhere
in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Lavishly illustrated
with comparative paintings by artists such as Watteau, Boucher,
Peter Paul Rubens, Jean-Francois De Troy, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, and
Hubert Robert, this fascinating peek into a bygone Parisian era is
a treat for the eyes and the intellect alike.
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