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Painting
The Visit (Le visite à la gardien)
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, (Metz, 1734 - 1781, Saint-Denis)
Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste
France
1734 - 1781
Male
34 3/4 x 50 3/4 in. (88.3 x 128.9 cm)
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Oil
Oil
1779
1779
1779
1600-1800, 18th century, horses, houses, landscapes, men, paintings, women
Painting
Le Prince studied with the rococo painter François Boucher and adopted his master's delicate manner and cool, pastel palette in his early work. Dating from late in his career, however, "The Visit" demonstrates a greater naturalism, reflecting the increasing popularity of seventeenth-century Dutch painting in eighteenth-century France. In this canvas, Le Prince has combined a genre scene with a panoramic landscape to suggest a gracious moment in everyday rural life. The subject of nobles visiting a peasant family would have appealed to the sense of humanity cultivated during the Enlightenment.
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