# Study for Picnic after the Hunt

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## Artwork

- Artist: [LANCRET, Nicolas](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lancret-nicolas-r713b64cb11cfa4>)
- Date: 1701-1750
- Technique: Black chalk heightened with white on gray paper

## Commentary

This is a preparatory study for the man wearing mustard yellow in the centre foreground of Picnic after the Hunt, who holds up a biscuit for one of the dogs straining against its leash. Lancret established the pose of the body with black chalk, highlighting the figure with white, but he indicated the face and hands of the figure only indistinctly.

## Related artworks

- [Autumn](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lancret-nicolas-r713b64cb11cfa4/autumn-rb9a3f91ec73fbd>)
- [Bal Champêtre \(Country Ball\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lancret-nicolas-r713b64cb11cfa4/bal-champtre-country-ball-rcff24fab4bbf66>)
- [Bathers](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lancret-nicolas-r713b64cb11cfa4/bathers-reb07566fc1f865>)
- [Billiard Players](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lancret-nicolas-r713b64cb11cfa4/billiard-players-ra9ca23262ee9e3>)
- [Children at Play in the Open](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lancret-nicolas-r713b64cb11cfa4/children-at-play-in-the-open-r851b06d1176fc1>)
- [Company in the Park](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lancret-nicolas-r713b64cb11cfa4/company-in-the-park-r2e735ab86ab82a>)
- [Concert in the Park](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lancret-nicolas-r713b64cb11cfa4/concert-in-the-park-r0a9166bea17037>)
- [Dance in a Pavilion](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lancret-nicolas-r713b64cb11cfa4/dance-in-a-pavilion-r486be96620ab0e>)
- [Fete in a Wood](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lancret-nicolas-r713b64cb11cfa4/fete-in-a-wood-r77e87c260e2a9e>)
- [Justified Servant](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lancret-nicolas-r713b64cb11cfa4/justified-servant-r1341003bcc06cc>)
- [La Camargo Dancing \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lancret-nicolas-r713b64cb11cfa4/la-camargo-dancing-detail-rf55b7bbf26a083>)
- [La Camargo Dancing](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lancret-nicolas-r713b64cb11cfa4/la-camargo-dancing-rd1b093954f2ad3>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)