Nicolas Lancret, 1743 - Children Playing in the Open - fine art print

Original information about the work of art by the museum's website (© Copyright - Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark) - Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark))

The beginning of the 18th century saw the introduction of a new genre within French painting, fêtes galantes or ”elegant parties”, which feigned to depict the aristocracy and their ritualised social gatherings, pastimes, and courting. Several later painters adopted elements from the genre but combined it with more rustic settings and characters, thereby creating more everyday-like scenes.

A depiction of children playing At first glance, Lancret’s depiction of children playing looks like an everyday scene, but it also holds allusions to the codified diversions of the upper classes. The children are well-dressed, and the fragment of architecture to the right suggests that they are frolicking in one of those parks that were often the settings of the aforementioned elegant parties. The picture also contains traces of the subtle erotic allusions typical of the genre in the game played by the four girls with the adolescent boy in their midst.

The girls playing, the boy trying to conquer The objective of the game is for the person in the middle to conquer a place from one of the four opponents in the four corners. Here, the boy’s attempts at making his first conquest are frustrated by the girls’ teasing gestures and secret signs. The younger children in the background are still too young to play the game and are having the rules explained to them by a slightly older boy.

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Children Playing in the Open is an artpiece by the baroque French artist Nicolas Lancret in 1743. Furthermore, this artwork forms part of the digital collection of Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), which is the largest museum of fine arts in Denmark and is attached to the Danish Ministry of Culture.. With courtesy of National Gallery of Denmark (license - public domain).The creditline of the artpiece is: . Furthermore, alignment is in landscape format with a side ratio of 1.2 : 1, which implies that the length is 20% longer than the width. Nicolas Lancret was a painter, whose art style can be attributed primarily to Baroque. The artist lived for a total of 53 years - born in the year 1690 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France and deceased in the year 1743.

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