The Luxembourg Family (Primary Title)
Nicholas Lancret, French, 1690 - 1743 (Artist)
Lancret was an early painter of “conversation pieces,” which depict groups of people engaged in informal activities. In this imaginative painting, an aristocratic family is visiting the countryside. Pretending to be a simple shepherd, the father plays a bagpipe before a frothy landscape as his wife carelessly dangles a fishing line and their daughter carries a basket. Fishing was considered a virtuous leisure activity in antique poetry and philosophy.
Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund
Nicholas Lancret, The Frick Collection, New York, NY, November 18, 1991 - January 12, 1992; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, Feb. 15-April 12, 1992
Age of Elegance, Artmobile, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, September 1967 - June 1968
Artmobile II, Circuit III, November 1963
Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, Lynchburg, VA, Setember 23 - October 15, 1962
Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, MD, April 1959
L’Exposition de L’Art Francais au XVIIIe Siecle, Brussels, 1904
L’Exposition des Alsaciens-Lorrains, April 1874
La Galerie Du Cercle Artistique et Litteraire, Brussels, 1873
Age of Elegance, Artmobile, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, September 1967 - June 1968
Artmobile II, Circuit III, November 1963
Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, Lynchburg, VA, Setember 23 - October 15, 1962
Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, MD, April 1959
L’Exposition de L’Art Francais au XVIIIe Siecle, Brussels, 1904
L’Exposition des Alsaciens-Lorrains, April 1874
La Galerie Du Cercle Artistique et Litteraire, Brussels, 1873
Choiseul Collection. [1] Collection of John W. Wilson, Brussels; [2] Collection Comte Edmond de Pourtales and Comtesse de Pourtales, Paris. Collection of Mme Elizabeth Wildenstein, Paris. (Newhouse Galleries, New York); Purchased by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), Richmond, Virginia in May of 1957. [3]
[1] Sold on March 15, 1839. See Georges Wildenstein, Lancret (Paris: Georges Servant, 1924), 107.
[2] Sold lot 16 at the sale of March 13-16, 1881. Purchased by Mme la comtesse de Pourtales. See Georges Wildenstein, Lancret (Paris: Georges Servant, 1924), 107.
[3] Accessioned May 3, 1957.
[1] Sold on March 15, 1839. See Georges Wildenstein, Lancret (Paris: Georges Servant, 1924), 107.
[2] Sold lot 16 at the sale of March 13-16, 1881. Purchased by Mme la comtesse de Pourtales. See Georges Wildenstein, Lancret (Paris: Georges Servant, 1924), 107.
[3] Accessioned May 3, 1957.
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