# Billiard Players [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LANCRET, Nicolas]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 53 x 61 cm ## Commentary This painting shows the characteristics of Lancret's late style. In a vaulted hall two elegant couples play billiards. A mother and her young daughter are depicted in the foreground and a couple sit on a sofa beneath a classical sculpture beyond. A sunlit garden is seen through the doorway. The game of billiards was very popular with the nobility in France. Louis XIII and Louis XIV were both enthusiastic players and it was said that Marie-Antoinette spent the eve of the French Revolution playing billiards with members of the court. ## Related artworks - [Autumn]() - [Bal Champêtre \(Country Ball\)]() - [Bathers]() - [Children at Play in the Open]() - [Company in the Park]() - [Concert in the Park]() - [Dance in a Pavilion]() - [Fete in a Wood]() - [Justified Servant]() - [La Camargo Dancing \(detail\)]() - [La Camargo Dancing]() - [Lady and Gentleman with two Girls and a Servant]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()