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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Cupid Unfastening the Girdle of Venus, 1788

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Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (21 January 1725 – 19 June 1805) was a French rococo painter

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Melanie de Bussiere, Comtesse Edmond de Pourtales, 1857

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Portrait of Empress Elisabeth Alexeievna of Russia, 1795

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Lady Caroline Scott as Winter, 1776

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Jane Fleming, later Countess of Harrington, 1779

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Rococo artist Rosalba Carriera, born in 1673, excelled in pastel portraits like this Muse (1725).

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