Two Elegant Women in Polish Dress

c. 1723

Nicolas Lancret

Associated Names
Nicolas Lancret

Artist, French, 1690 - 1743

The image features two women. The woman on the left is standing, holding a mask in her right hand and pointing with her left arm extended. She wears a gown with fur-like trimming. The woman on the right is sitting, looking upward with a fan in her left hand. She also wears a gown with fur-like trimming. There are no other objects or scenery visible in the plain background.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Frédéric Villot (sale, Paris, 16-18 May 1859, no. 143); purchased by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt (Lugt 1089) (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15 February 1897, no. 146); acquired by Georges Hugo. Émile Straus (sale, galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 3-4 June 1929, no. 74); Myron A. Hofer [1893-1963]; gift in 1944 to NGA.

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Exhibition History

1860

  • Tableaux et dessins de l'école française, principalement du XVIIIe siècle, tirés de collections d'amateurs, Paris, Salle Martinet, 1860, no. 280.

1879

  • Exposition de dessins de maîtres anciens, Paris, École des Beaux-Arts, 1879, no. 494.

1883

  • L'Art du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, Galerie Georges-Petit, 1883-1884, no. 211.

1933

  • Goncourt. Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1933, no. 322 (a photo of the drawing exhibited).

1944

  • French Prints and Drawings of the XVIIIth Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1944-1945, no catalogue.

1958

  • Dessins français des collections américaines, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen and Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, 1958-1959, no. 63, pl. 44.

1959

  • French Drawings from American Collections, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1959, no. 63, pl. 38a.

1974

  • French 18th and 19th Century Drawings, Washington, The Phillips Collection, 1974.

1991

  • Nicolas Lancret: 1690-1743. Frick Collection, New York, and The Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 1991-1992, no. 27, pl. 32 (Mary Tavener Holmes).

1999

  • Watteau and His World: French Drawings from 1700 to 1750. The Frick Collection, New York; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1999-2000, no. 61 (Alan Wintermute).

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 108-109, 281, 2009, no. 45 (color).

Bibliography

1875

  • Bocher, Emmanuel. Les gravures françaises du XVIIIe siècle; ou Catalogue raisonné des estampes, eaux-fortes, pièces en culeur, au bistre et au lavis, de 1700 à 1800. 6 vols. Paris, 1875-1882: 4(1877):88.

1880

  • Chennevières, P. de. Dessins de Maîtres Anciens, exposés à l'École des Beaux-Arts en 1879. Paris, 1880: 96 (collection of essays first published in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts between June 1879 and October 1879; this drawing mentioned in issue of September 1879, 192).

1881

  • Goncourt, Edmond de. La maison d'un artiste. 2 vols. Paris, 1881, 1: 99-100.

1887

  • Goncourt, Edmond and Jules de. Journal, mémoires de la vie littéraire. 9 vols. Paris, 1887-1896, 1: 800 (8 September 1860)

1930

  • Grüneisen, Wladimir de. Bibliothèque d'art et d'archéologie. Paris, 1930: 320.

1968

  • Wallace Collection Catalogues, Pictures and Drawings. 16th ed. Edited by Francis J. B. Watson. London, 1968: 168, under P450.

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 677, no. 1085 (color).

1991

  • Launay, Élisabeth. Les frères Goncourt collectionneurs de dessins. Paris, 1991: 341, no. 158, repro. 124, fig. 54.

Inscriptions

at upper left along left edge, in graphite: 7813 (?)

Wikidata ID

Q64618493

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