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Seven elegantly dressed men and women sit and stand together in a landscape while being attended to by more men, who also tend to four dogs and four horses, in this horizontal painting. The people all have pale skin with flushed cheeks and delicate features. They gather in front of a grove of towering trees, the canopies of which reach the top edge of the painting and fill much of the sky in the top half of the composition. In front of the trees, one woman sits and one stands at the center of the painting. To our left of center, the seated woman wears a muted, lemon-yellow dress trimmed with…

Picnic after the Hunt

Nicolas Lancret (French, 1690 - 1743)

probably c. 1735/1740 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Samuel H. Kress Collection

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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