La Camargo Dancing

1730 · National Gallery of Art, Washington

genre

This painting is the largest of four variants of this subject painted by the artist; smaller versions are in the Wallace Collection, London, The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, and the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes. The Washington version is the only one in which Camargo is accompanied by a male dancer and several spectators.

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About the Artist

Nicolas Lancret

1690 – 1743

French painter, he was, with Pater, the principal imitator of Watteau. After failing as a history painter he was influenced by Gillot 's theatrical scenes as Watteau had been, and he spent the rest of his life painting fêtes galantes. He is well represented in the Wallace Collection, London.

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