The Dance in the Park
The Dance in the Park
Artist
Nicolas Lancret
(French, 1690-1743)
Place of OriginFrance
DateProbably 1730s
DimensionsH: 44 in. (111.7 cm); W: 57 in. (144.7 cm)
MediumOil on canvas
ClassificationPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1954.17
Not on View
Grigaut, Paul L., "Baroque and Rococo France in Toledo," Art Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 1, Spring 1956, p. 53.
"French Art (1600-1800)," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 3, no. 4, Autumn 1960, p. 87, repr.
Wittmann, Otto, "L'Art Francais au Musée de Toledo," Connaisance, no 125, July 1962, pp. 40-47, appendix, p. 111, repr. p. 44.
Watson, F.J.B., "Eighteenth-Century Painting and Decorative Arts," Apollo, vol. 86, no. 70, Dec. 1967, repr. fig. 8, p. 458.
Watteau et la fête galante, Paris. Société Française de Promotion Artistique, 2004, p. 27, repr. (col.) pp. 28-9.
Holmes, Mary Tavener, Nicholas Lancret: Dance Before a Fountain, Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006, p. 59, fig. 53, p. 58.
Carey, Juliet, Theatres of Life: Drawings from the Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, London, 2007, p. 158 n.3, fig. 46.
Exhibition HistoryLondon, Royal Academy, France in the Eighteenth Century, 1968, no. 387.Valenciennes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Watteau et la fête galante, 2004, no. 67, p. 228, repr. (col.) pp. 226-7.
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