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Sleeping Shepherdess
Date | c. 1730 |
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Materials and Techniques | oil on canvas |
Size(cm) | 71 x 84.5 |
Credit Line | Purchased |
Standard ref. | Wildenstein 737 |
Category | Paintings |
Collection Number | P.1979-0005 |
In the first half of the eighteenth century, a genre called fêtes-galantes, which depicted the lives of well-born ladies and gentlemen pleasantly speaking of love in parks and in the countryside, came into existence. Lancret, under the influence of Jean-Antoine Watteau, became a successor to this tradition. In contrast to the works of Watteau, which were filled with melancholy, those of Lancret celebrated lighter pastoral scenes. (Source: The Digital Gallery. 1999-2006)
Provenance
Hôtel de Boullongne, Place Vandôme, Paris (commissioned by Jean Boullongne as a part of the decoration of the salon); Auc., Paris, 27 May 1896, no. 9 (cat. Notice sur un très beau salon décoré par Lancret.); Bamberger Coll.; Auc. X...(Bamberger), Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 17 March 1923, no. 59; Wildenstein & Co., by which sold to the NMWA, 1980.
Exhibition History
- 1951
- Twenty Masters of Painting, Museum of Fine Arts, Huston, 14 January 1951 - 4 February 1951, cat. no. 6, repr.
- 1955
- If Wishes Could Buy, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 0 1955 - 0 1956, (no catalogue)
- 1978
- Rococo: Poésie et rêve de la peinture française au ⅩⅧe siècle, Musée Otani des Beaux-Arts, 14 January 1978 - 12 February 1978, cat. no. 5, repr.
- 2017
- [Traveling Exhibitions Presenting National Art Museum Collections, Fiscal 2017] Muse: Women before the Artists' Eyes: From the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, 22 April 2017 - 2 July 2017, Akita Museum of Modern Art, 15 July-18 September, cat. no. 58
- 2020
- Sleeping: Life with Art: From Goya and Rubens to Shiota Chiharu, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 25 November 2020 - 23 February 2021, no. 0-2, col. repr.
Bibliography
- 1874
- Ballot de Sovot, Silvain. Eloge de Lancret, peintre du Roi. Paris, n. d. [1874], pp. 34, 45-47.
- 1877
- Bocher, Emmanuel. Les Gravures Françaises du XVIIIe siècle ou catalogue raisonné des estampes, eaux-fortes, pièces en couleur, au bistre et au lavis, de 1700 à 1800. vol. 4, Nicolas Lancret, Paris, 1877, pp. 91-92.
- 1924
- Wildenstein, Georges. Lancret: biographie et catalogue critiques. Paris, 1924, pp. 119-120, no. 737, figs. 182, 191.
- 1955
- Baltimore Museum of Art News. vol. 19, no. 1, Oct. 1955, repr. p. 11.
- 1981
- Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 14 (1979), 1981, New Acquisitions (Painting). pp. 6-7, 12, New Acquisitions (Catalogue). pp. 16-17, repr.
- 1990
- Catalogue of painting acquisitions: 1979-1989. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1990, pp. 39-41, repr.
- 2013
- Masterpieces: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2013 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 65, col. repr.
- 2020
- Sleeping: Life with Art—From Goya and Rubens to Shiota Chiharu (exh. cat.). Furutate, Ryo, ed. National Museum of Art, 2020, pp. 31, 174, cat. no. 0-2, col. repr.