id: 125942 accession number: 1948.176.1 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1948.176.1 updated: 2023-03-08 14:59:07.406000 The Gardener, c. 1723–27. Nicolas Lancret (French, 1690–1743). Oil on canvas; framed: 157 x 43 x 5.5 cm (61 13/16 x 16 15/16 x 2 3/16 in.); unframed: 151 x 36.5 cm (59 7/16 x 14 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Louis Dudley Beaumont Foundation 1948.176.1 title: The Gardener title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1723–27 creation date earliest: 1718 creation date latest: 1732 current location: creditline: Gift of the Louis Dudley Beaumont Foundation copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - French 18th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Nicolas Lancret (French, 1690–1743) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 157 x 43 x 5.5 cm (61 13/16 x 16 15/16 x 2 3/16 in.); Unframed: 151 x 36.5 cm (59 7/16 x 14 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Decorative Style opening date: 1961-09-08T04:00:00 Decorative Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 8, 1961-January 7, 1962). title: Highlights of the Rococo: Norweb Ceramics and Related Arts opening date: 1983-11-08T05:00:00 Highlights of the Rococo: Norweb Ceramics and Related Arts. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 8, 1983-June 3, 1984). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Nicolas Lancret 1690-1743, Frick Collection (Nov. 19, 1991-Jan. 12, 1992); The Kimbell Art Museum (Feb. 15-Apr. 12, 1992). * The Fourth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters: French Paintings of the Eighteenth-Century, Detroit Institute of Art. MI (December 2-20, 1926). * Three French Reigns (Louis XIV, XV, & XVI), London (February 21-April 5, 1933). --- PROVENANCE Viscount Pierre de Chezelles and Vicomte Hippolyte le Sellier de Chezelles date: footnotes: citations: Lord Duveen, 1869 - 1939 (London, England) date: by 1926 - at least 1933 footnotes: citations: Mr. 'Commodore' Louis Dudley Beaumont (1857-1942) and Mrs. Beaumont (Helene M. Thomas) (1895-1988), Cap d’Antibes, France date: about 1935-36-1942 footnotes: citations: Louis Dudley Beaumont Foundation, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1948. date: 1942-1948 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1948- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This whimsical series is one typically found in fashionable, elite Parisian residences of the eighteenth century. Panel paintings of this variety were created to decorated the space above chair rails and in between doors and windows, and Lancret's series was painted for a room in the Pavillon d'Hauteville in Paris. In keeping with the eighteenth-century French tradition of depicting the four seasons or the times of the day, Lancret's five decorative panels have a unifying theme. Pastoral activities and games, favored themes of Lancret, are the overarching motifs, and depict afternoon pastimes, set in nature. Three of the panels, The Swing, The See Saw, and The Vintage,depict lithe, youthful duets playfully engaging in the outdoor pleasures, while the narrower panels, The Gardener and Horticulture, host individual figures cultivating lush, private gardens. Despite the disparate subjects, stylistic details unify the series, including the delicate arabesques derived from nature that frame the scenes, and similar flora and fauna in each panel. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Wildenstein, Georges. Lancret. Paris: G. Servant, 1924. page number: p. 120, mentioned under no. 742 url: Detroit Institute of Arts. The Fourth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters: French Paintings of the Eighteenth Century, Detroit Institute of Arts, December 2 to 20, 1926. [Detroit]: [Institute of Arts], 1926. page number: Nos. 32-33 url: Detroit Institute of Arts. The Fourth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters: French Paintings of the Eighteenth Century, Detroit Institute of Arts, December 2 to 20, 1926. [Detroit]: [Institute of Arts], 1926. page number: Nos. 32-33 url: Maurois, André. Three French Reigns: Louis XIV, XV and XVI. [London]: [publisher not identified], 1933. page number: no. 82. url: "A French Rococo Collection Goes to Cleveland", Art News, XLVII (September 1948). page number: p. 29 url: Francis, Henry S. “A Gift of the Louis Dudley Beaumont Foundation.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 35, no. 10 (1948). page number: p. 222, illus. 226-27 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141515 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Reproduced: p. 82-85; Mentioned: p. 82-87 url: Holmes, Mary Tavener, and Joseph Focarino. Nicolas Lancret: 1690-1743. New York: H.N. Abrams in association with the Frick Collection, 1992. page number: pp 60-63, cat. No. 3 url: Holmes, Mary Tavener, and Joseph Focarino. Nicolas Lancret: 1690-1743. New York: H.N. Abrams in association with the Frick Collection, 1992. page number: pp 60-63, cat. No. 3 url: Wintermute, Alan "One of the Great Sponges: The Art of Nicolas Lancret," Apollo (March 1992). page number: p. 191 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.176.1/1948.176.1_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.176.1/1948.176.1_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1948.176.1/1948.176.1_full.tif