Nicolas Lancret

Picnic after the Hunt



Nicolas Lancret - Picnic after the Hunt



Nicolas Lancret
Picnic after the Hunt
c. 1735/40
61.5 x 74.8 cm
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Samuel H. Kress Collection


Literature

Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 440
Philip Conisbee, French paintings of the fifteenth through the eighteenth century, Washington; Princeton, N.J., 2009, nr. 65


Provenance

Friedrich II, King of Prussia (1712-1786), Potsdam
by descent in the imperial Hohenzollern family to Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), Berlin
sold 1923 to Wildenstein & Co., Paris, New York, and London
sold December 1946 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York
gift 1952 to NGA

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1952.2.22

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