Description
Medium: Etching and engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 38.5 x 34 cm (15.16 x 13.39 inch). Image size: 36 x 28 cm. (14.17 x 11.02 inch).
Condition: very good, given age. Light creasing, foxing and soiling. Left margin with some thin paper spots. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
LANCRET, LARMESSIN, TIMES OF DAY, ROCOCO, FRENCH ENGRAVING, 18TH CENTURY, GALLANTRY, TEA SCENE, BATHING, LEISURE, GENRE SERIES | PCO-EXPO-FRENCH
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Published in Paris, APDR, 1741.
Reference: Widener Collection, NGA Acc. Nos. 1942.9.2112-2115.
Biography engraver: Nicolas de Larmessin IV (1684-c.1753) was a French engraver and official court printmaker, known for refined interpretations of Rococo genre scenes and collaborations with painters like Lancret.
Biography artist: Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743) was a prominent French Rococo painter whose elegant fetes galantes and genre compositions captured the leisure and flirtation of 18th-century society.










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