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Nicolas Lancret
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Color pastels, colored chalk, colorful chalk. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, history and society
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Artists, Painters, & Architects
Tate Modern extension Switch House, London, England. (Tavatnik, museums). Photo dated 2017.
Can You Match These Lesser-Known Paintings to Their Artists?
"The Birth of Venus," tempera on canvas by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1485; in the Uffizi, Florence.
Who Painted the Most Expensive Paintings in the World?
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Born January 22, 1690 • Paris • France
Died September 14, 1743 (aged 53) • Paris • France

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Lancret, Nicolas: Children at Play in the Open
La Camargo Dancing
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Hokusai
Japanese artist
“The Calling of the Hounds,” tapestry by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1742–45; in the Pitti Palace, Florence
Jean-Baptiste Oudry
French artist
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall
Belorussian-born French artist
Bonnard, Pierre: Place Clichy
Pierre Bonnard
French artist
Georges Rouault
French artist
Jacques Villon
French painter
Jean Charlot
French artist
Jean Cousin, the Younger
French artist
“Still Life,” oil on canvas by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1866; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Henri Fantin-Latour
French painter
Tom Lea
American artist and writer
William Blake
William Blake
British writer and artist
Lucas Cranach, the Elder
German painter
Hans Holbein the Younger: The Ambassadors
Hans Holbein the Younger
German painter
Olga Vladimirovna Rozanova
Russian artist
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel
Russian artist
David Hockney
David Hockney
British artist
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Still Life with Jug and African Bowl
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German artist
Simon Ushakov
Russian artist
Yelena Genrikhovna Guro
Russian artist and writer
Illustration by Walter Crane for The Frog Prince (1873).
Walter Crane
British illustrator and painter

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