| | artnet.com: Resource Library: Lancret, Nicolas |
 | | Two contemporary biographers, Ballot de Sovot and Dézallier DArgenville, suggest that Lancrets move to Gillot was the result of the increasing popularity of Watteaus genre scenes of elegant figures in garden settings. |
 | | In 1719 he was received (reçu) into the Académie Royale as a painter of fêtes galantes, a category that had been created two years earlier especially for Watteau. |
 | | Lancrets morceau de réceptionConversation galante (original or version, London, Wallace)depicts a garden scene peopled by figures dressed in commedia dellarte costume. |
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