Plate with scene from "Les Oies de Frère Philippe"
Nicolas Lancret
ca. 1745 · Porcelain · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
This plate depicts a tale from a famous collection of stories by a seventeenth-century French author, Jean de La Fontaine. The story concerns a young man encountering women for the first time, as seen here, and it served as the subject of a painting by Nicolas Lancret, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (see 2004.86). The plate faithfully reproduces Lancret’s composition, and it reflects the adoption of European images by Chinese potters in order to appeal to foreign markets.
- Artist
- Nicolas Lancret
- Date
- ca. 1745
- Medium
- Porcelain
- Culture
- Chinese, made for export
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 2016
