LANCRET, Nicolas
(b. 1690, Paris, d. 1743, Paris)
LANCRET, Nicolas (b. 1690, Paris, d. 1743, Paris) |
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Mademoiselle de Camargo Dancing1730Oil on canvas, 42 x 55 cm Wallace Collection, London | ||
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One of the most celebrated dancers of her day, she was twenty when Lancret painted this portrait of her in character; it was immediately engraved. Camargo was famed for the innovations she brought to her art, while her biography has been highly coloured, especially concerning her amorous affairs.
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