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LANCRET, NICOLAS (1660-1743)

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 153 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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LANCRET, NICOLAS (1660-1743) , French painter, was born in Paris on the 22nd of January 166o, 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. Two pictures painted by Lancret and exhibited on the Place Dauphine had a
great
  success, which laid the foundation of his fortune, and, it is said, estranged Watteau, who had been complimented as their author. Lancret's
work
  cannot now, however, be taken for that of Watteau, for both in drawing and in
painting
  his
touch
 , although intelligent, is dry, hard and wanting in that quality which distinguished his
great
  model; these characteristics are due possibly in
part
  to the fact that he had been for some time in training under an engraver. The number of his paintings (of which over eighty have been engraved) is immense; he executed a few portraits and attempted historical composition, but his favourite subjects were balls, fairs,
village
  weddings, &c. The British Museum possesses an admirable
series
  of studies by Lancret in red chalk, and the National Gallery, London, shows four paintingsthe " Four Ages of Man " (engraved by Desplaces and 1'Armessin), cited by d'Argenville amongst the
principal
  works of Lancret. In 1719 he was received as Academician, and became councillor in 1735; in 1741 he married a grandchild of Boursault, author of
Aesop
  at Court. He died on the 14th of September 1743.
See d'Argenville, Vies des peintres; and Ballot de Sovot, Eloge de M. Lancret (1743, new ed. 1874).


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