Nicolas Lancret (Paris 1690-1743)
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Nicolas Lancret (Paris 1690-1743)

A standing female figure, holding a fan in her right hand

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Nicolas Lancret (Paris 1690-1743)
A standing female figure, holding a fan in her right hand
red chalk, watermark grapes
9½ x 10 1/8 in. (24 x 26 cm.)

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A preparatory study for the woman in the centre background of Lancret's painting La fête en plein air (G. Wildenstein, Lancret, Paris, 1924, no. 334). Another drawing for the same figure was sold at Sotheby's, New York, 30 April 1982, lot 51.
We are grateful to Mary Taverner Holmes for confirming the attribution to Lancret on the basis of a digital photograph.

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