Nicolas Lancret* (1690-1743)
Nicolas Lancret* (1690-1743)

A Lady dancing, holding the hand of her partner (recto); Subsidiary Studies of her Head (verso)

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Nicolas Lancret* (1690-1743)
A Lady dancing, holding the hand of her partner (recto); Subsidiary Studies of her Head (verso)
red chalk
9 x 6 in. (241 x 158 mm.)

Lot Essay

A study for the couple dancing in the center of the painting Le Bal from the collection of King Frederic II and now at Potsdam, G. Wildenstein, Lancret, Paris, 1924, no. 335, pl. 96. A smaller version of the subject with only the central couple from King Frederic II collection is in Sans Souci, G. Wildenstein, op. cit., no. 148, pl. 40.