Declaration of Love

Cleveland Museum of Art

Declaration of Love

Nicolas LancretLinkedCulture matchlcp-10b7bece9e65

Date
c. 1720
Medium
oil on canvas
Culture
France, 18th century
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
124084

From the Cleveland Museum of Art record

A category of painting invented in France in the early 1700s is the fête galante (gallant party), with subject matter that hovers between fantasy and reality. The figures in theatrical costume derive from Italian street performers seen in Paris, while the playful outdoor garden party connects to leisure activities enjoyed by certain Parisian elites. The arts of conversation, music, and painting—all highly valued by French aristocracy—intersect in this work.

View at Cleveland Museum of Art ↗

The authoritative record is held by Cleveland Museum of Art. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.

Get printable QR codes

Open QR codes for this object page and the museum record. They stay collapsed until needed.

Open this page QR destination: https://linkedculture.org/q/q1.-0cVJTUORBSuI683.t7oIsag9I3oHGPQiHaevdFwePWla89v9ekGEjcUe8LhFFrAgal_bO1EsS6ab0jpum656yiGCvC53Y2Mfnvoi4xzNCeW0Qy_Al2w47GXqSc1wyfCHXlFaP6Y23ZyywLJy8ozEXxd-iWfVRQMrY0IHVwYnSwLiXiIibFHSpeVxt7vLTsBzgDXnroAS6hDF0did2ok202yTiEOjpxuwsCkRnDub7IVy0UBhBl9FAHjqg-EWsyMlNh8RFOScLejhkpp0KPlz35Z2edpK3cNOj7qkkafYxSlawezFbwyZYDp2DJIwPd4QxASee at Cleveland Museum of Art QR destination: https://linkedculture.org/q/q1.dw23CWhL68amxC7t.N8AQkEo5eJDuy3WUihyDJ2no7VPB6OPfBLkiY15Ld71j88e0WstTynMBcSnzX2xCHuc3JTOMCA42HQb-v4VltjGWRGfoNo-Wy4XwmuggBVIYU2LqBF1-_t2eTtMRIEWKQJ97uYrEhaVoEOuQ4FGrYDTrbK_xCTFeXzDYZNI_3Y0V0bDx_oU-TrGBQ7NnSsLTwSsnNZzhdKY1w7Iw7BEbMX1hBu0vopQJZP6w16O4KXciWicU7j-91C-d10o9CE2hizuKJb71qiUYwxlIX0JEeP-leF-peX3MvROsP2c9
Open this page
See at Cleveland Museum of Art

Provenance & credit

As published by the source institution. Coverage varies — not every institution's open-data feed includes ownership history.

Credit line
Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection
Provenance
William Sharp Ogden (1845-1926), Finchley, London | December 6, 1927: (Sale: Christie’s, London, December 6, 1927, no. 50) | [Wildenstein & Co., New York, NY] | 1928-1944: Elisabeth Severance Prentiss (Mrs. Francis Fleury Prentiss) (1865-1944), Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1944-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related across collections

Semantically similar works from Cleveland Museum of Art and other institutions.