| Nicolas Lancret: Dance Before a Fountain Contributor(s): Holmes, Mary (Author), Leonard, Mark (Other) |
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ISBN: 0892368322 ISBN-13: 9780892368327 Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2006 Annotation: This enticing scene in the Getty Museum's painting is an excellent example of fete galante, a genre that reached its peak of popularity in France during the first half of the eighteenth century. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - General - Art | European - Art | Individual Artists - General |
| Dewey: 759.4 |
| LCCN: 2005012001 |
| Series: Getty Museum Studies on Art |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 7.84" W x 9.26" (0.89 lbs) 100 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In a garden glade before a grand fountain, surrounded by a musical party, an elegant woman in a lustrous white gown dances as part of a foursome, raising her eyes to the viewer as if extending an invitation to the dance. This is the enticing scene in the J. Paul Getty Museum's painting Dance before a Fountain by Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743), an excellent example of the fete galante, a genre that was created and reached the peak of its popularity in France during the first half of the eighteenth century. This monograph seeks to familiarize American audiences with Lancret, a master of this genre, who was a revered painter in his own time, rivalling his contemporaries Antoine Watteau and Francois Boucher, and a favourite of crowned heads across Europe. Mary Tavener Holmes's engrossing text uses this painting as a springboard to reveal a remarkable amount about the painter, his mode of painting, Paris at the time this work was made, eighteenth-century dance, and the world of art patronage and collecting in France and elsewhere in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Lavishly illustrated with comparative paintings by artists such as Watteau, Boucher, Peter Paul Rubens, Jean-Francoi |