Nicolas Lancret

Nicolas Lancret's (b. 1690, Paris - d. 1743, Paris) early career never indicated his future renown as Paris's best-known practitioner of the fête galante. After training as an engraver, he apprenticed to a moderately successful history painter. By 1708 he was studying at the Académie Royale, from which he was expelled for bad behavior. Probably because of the popularity of...