There’s nothing like an artist with a sense of humour & a sense of the past. Here we see two versions of “The Swing:” the first by McInnes full of hedgehog whimsy, & the original by Lancret full of 18thc, French, Rococo flirting (1735) ☺️🌳

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Nicolas Lancret’s “The Four Times of Day: Evening” (c.1740)

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Nicolas Lancret
'Que le coeur d'un amant est sujet à changer' ('That the Heart of a Lover is Subject to Change')

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Can you spot the turtle doves in our painting by Nicolas Lancret?

🎵 Our choice is Beethoven's Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastoral’, inspired by the calls of birds. https://t.co/62vJzVuzOc

🖼️ 'Lovers in a Landscape' is at Britain until 20 March.

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Nicolas Lancret (22 January 1690 – 14 September 1743) was a French painter-The Servant Justified

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Born Nicolas Lancret French master of art form & brilliant of balls fairs & weddings showing French social tastes & manners under the regent Orleans Later his pastels palette deftly captured a sense of harmony between art & nature …

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Nicolas Lancret 🇫🇷 (b. 22.1.1690)
'The Four Times of Day: Evening' (1739-41)
Oil on copper
28.8 x 36.8 cm

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“If the whole world was watching I'd still dance with you” - Niall Horan

La Camargo Dancing - Nicolas Lancret

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Nicolas Lancret (1690- 1743) peintre français. Il dépeint l’esprit de comédie légère caractéristique des goûts et des mœurs de la société française de la Régence. Ici, peintures de cadres.

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Born Nicolas Lancret French master of art form & brilliant of balls fairs & weddings showing French social tastes & manners under the regent Orleans Later his pastels palette deftly captured a sense of harmony between art & nature …

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Painter Nicolas Lancret was born in 1690!

He was probably the most successful follower of Jean-Antoine Watteau. Our painting ‘Lovers in a Landscape’, produced in about 1736, was the first painting purchased for the Barber.

➡️ https://t.co/QdOc34ucqM

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RT : Died 1743, painter of light comedy, Nicolas Lancret < A Gilded Cage https://t.co/iDYA2p4BmS

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