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Nicolas Lancret: Dance Before a Fountain Dads & Grads 2024 The exceptional collection of FrenchMary Tavener Holmes With a conservation note by Mark Leonard In a garden glade before a grand fountain, surrounded by a musical party, an elegant woman in a lustrous white gown dances as part of a foursome, raising her eyes to the viewer as if extending an invitation to the dance. This is the enticing scene in the Getty Museum's painting Dance Before a Fountain by Nicolas Lancret (16901743), an excellent example of the fte galante, a genre that