print
- Museum number
- 1882,0812.1
- Title
- Object: Mlle Camargo
- Description
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Portrait of the ballerina Marie Anne de Cupis de Camargo, dancing in a woodland clearing at centre-left, her left foot slightly off the ground, arms outstretched with the right raised and the left lowered, looking back over her left shoulder, wearing full-skirted dress with ruffled sleeves and decorated with garlands of flowers, a scarf over her left shoulder and flowers in her hair; at left, a man leaning against a pedestal with an urn, playing the pipe and tabor ; at right, a group of admiring musicians and onlookers amongst the bushes; after Lancret
Etching
- Production date
- 1730-1743
- Dimensions
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Height: 120 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 140 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Lancret's painting of 1730 is at the Wallace Collection, London (P393). It was also engraved by Laurent Cars (R,10.13) and Francis Vivares (K,58.92).
Bocher indicates that this plate was engraved during Lancret's lifetime and was the subject of a lawsuit
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1882
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1882,0812.1
