Le Bal

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AFTER NICOLAS LANCRET
Lancret
Le Bal
oil on canvas
29 x 35 5/8 in. (73.7 x 90.5 cm.)
with indistinct signature and date '1735[?]' (lower left, on the steps)

Provenance

Anna Case Mackay (1887-1984), New York; (†) Christie's, New York, 23 March 1984, lot 134, as School of Lancret, where acquired by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

This is a copy of Nicolas Lancret's painting, Le Bal, formerly in the collection of Frederick II of Prussia (see G. Wildenstein, Lancret, Paris, 1924, p. 93, no. 335, fig. 96) and last recorded in Berlin (see M. T. Holmes, Nicolas Lancret: Dance Before a Fountain, Los Angeles, 2006, pp. 55-6, fig. 52). Lancret evidently took his inspiration for the composition from Antoine Watteau's Les Plaisirs du Bal of circa 1715, which is now in the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London (inv. no. DPG156).

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