About the Artwork
The Repast of the Hunting Party
ca. 1725
Nicolas Lancret
1690-1743
French
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 22 × 29 inches (55.9 × 73.7 cm) Framed: 33 × 40 × 4 inches (83.8 × 101.6 × 10.2 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
City of Detroit Purchase
28.95
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
the artist's wife, Mme. Lancret (possibly Paris, France)
April 5, 1782, sold by (Pierre Rémy, Paris, France) auction Mme. Lancret, no. 14
Baron Etienne Martin de Beurnonville [d. 1876] (Paris, France)
May 21-22, 1883, sold by (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France) auction E. M. de Beurnonville, lot 23 [sold for 1.120 francs]
Emile Barre (Paris, France)
January 25-26, 1894, sold by (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France) auction E. Barre, lot 28
1928, (Edouard Jonas, Paris and New York)
1928-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Mireur, H. Dictionnaire des ventes d'art. Paris, 1911, IV, 170.
Wildenstein, G. Lancret. Paris, 1924, no. 452.
Walther, J. "Eighteenth Century French Paintings." Bulletin of the DIA 10, no 1 (October 1928): pp. 2-3 (ill.).
Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 120 (ill.).
Wilenski, R.H. French Painting. Boston, 1931, p. 124, pl. 54a.
Chefs d'oeuvre de l'art français. Exh. cat., Palais National des Arts. Paris, 1937, p. 90, no. 177.
Loan Exhibition of Masterpieces of Painting. Exh. cat., Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Montreal, 1942, no. 44.
Richardson, E. P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 77, no. 120.
Florisoone, M. Le dix-huitième siècle: la peinture française. Paris, 1948, pl. 35 (ill.).
Age of Elegance: The Rococo and Its Effect. Exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore, 1959, no 17.
Héritage de France, French Painting 1610-1760. Exh. cat., Montreal Museum of Fine Arts et al. Montreal, 1961, pp. 40-41, 102, no. 32.
Morissette, G. "Héritage de France." Vie des Arts, no. 24 (Autumn 1961): p.37 (ill.).
Wilhelm, J. "The Sketch in Eighteenth Century French Painting." Apollo 76, no. 7 (September 1962): p. 522 (fig. 7) (ill.).
Man: Glory, Jest and Riddle, A Survey of the Human Form through the Ages. Exh. cat., M.H. De Young Memorial Museum. San Francisco, 1964, no. 197 (ill.).
France in the Eighteenth Century. Exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts. London, 1968, p. 89, no. 386 (fig. 98).
Roland-Michel, M. "Observations on Madame Lancret's Sale." Burlington Magazine 111, no. 10, suppl. (October 1969): vi, and no. 6, (ill.) p. v, (fig. 4). [suggests DIA painting is lot 14 in Mme. Lancret's sale, held Paris, Hôtel de Bullion, April 5, 1782 and days following.]
Masterpieces from The Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art et al. Tokyo, 1989, pp. 65, 209-210, cat. 33 (ill.).
Baillio, Joseph, et al. The Arts of France from François Ier to Napoléon Ier, A Centennial Celebration of Wildenstein's Presence in New York. New York 2005, p. 161 (ill.).
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Nicolas Lancret, The Repast of the Hunting Party, ca. 1725, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 28.95.
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