1. Two pictures painted by Nicolas 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.
10 Facts About Nicolas Lancret
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Nicolas Lancret completed works to decorate the Palace of Versailles, while his style was later to prove popular with Frederick the Great.
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Nicolas Lancret's popularity was reflected by the decision to make him a councillor at the Academie in 1735.
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Nicolas Lancret completed numerous paintings, a significant proportion of which were engraved.
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Some have claimed Nicolas Lancret's work is significantly inferior to that of Watteau.
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In drawing and in painting his touch is often considered intelligent but dry; art historian Michael Levey remarked that Nicolas Lancret was 'no poet but a charming essayist'.
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Nicolas Lancret's characteristics are due possibly to the fact that he had been for some time in training under an engraver.
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Nicolas Lancret's last painting, Family in a Garden, The National Gallery, is considered by Levey to be his 'masterpiece'.
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Nicolas Lancret was single for much of his life; however in 1741 he married the 18-year-old grandchild of Boursault, author of Aesop at Court.
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Supposedly Nicolas Lancret was induced to marry her after finding her and her dying mother living in poverty in an attic room and hearing that the daughter was to be compelled to enter a convent.