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…
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Picnic after the Hunt

Nicolas Lancret (French, 1690 - 1743)

probably c. 1735/1740

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 61.5 x 74.8 cm (24 3/16 x 29 7/16 in.) ; framed: 84 x 98 x 8.9 cm (33 1/16 x 38 9/16 x 3 1/2 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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