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See also:LANCRET, See also:NICOLAS (1660-1743) , See also:French painter, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 22nd of See also:January 166o, and became a brilliant depicter of See also:light See also:comedy which reflected the tastes and See also:manners of French society under the See also:regent See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans. His first See also:master was See also:Pierre d'Ulin, but his acquaintance with and admiration for See also:Watteau induced him to leave d'Ulin for See also:Gillot, whose See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil Watteau had been. Two pictures painted by Lancret and exhibited on the See also:Place See also:Dauphine had a See also:great success, which laid the See also:foundation of his See also:fortune, and, it is said, estranged Watteau, who had been complimented as their author. Lancret's See also:work cannot now, however, be taken for that of Watteau, for both in See also:drawing and in See also:painting his See also:touch, although intelligent, is dry, hard and wanting in that quality which distinguished his great See also:model; these characteristics are due possibly in See also:part to the fact that he had been for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in training under an engraver. The number of his paintings (of which over eighty have been engraved) is immense; he executed a few portraits and attempted See also:historical See also:composition, but his favourite subjects were balls, fairs, See also:village weddings, &c. The See also:British Museum possesses an admirable See also:series of studies by Lancret in red See also:chalk, and the See also:National See also:Gallery, See also:London, shows four paintings—the " Four Ages of See also:Man " (engraved by Desplaces and 1'Armessin), cited by d'Argenville amongst the See also:principal See also:works of Lancret. In 1719 he was received as Academician, and became councillor in 1735; in 1741 he married a grandchild of See also:Boursault, author of See also:Aesop at See also:Court. He died on the 14th of See also:September 1743.
See d'Argenville, Vies See also:des peintres; and See also:Ballot de Sovot, Eloge de M. Lancret (1743, new ed. 1874).
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