Old Master & 19th Century Paintings
Old Master & 19th Century Paintings
Follower of Jean-Antoine Watteau
La Peinture
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April 10, 11:53 AM GMT
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Follower of Jean-Antoine Watteau
Le Peinture
oil on canvas, unframed
41 x 33 cm.; 16⅛ x 13 in.
An engraving by Louis Desplaces (1682–1739) indicates that this painting is a copy after a work by Watteau with some minor variations to the background.1 The original painting (location unknown) was a pendant to La Sculpture, c. 1710, now in Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans.2
1 See for example the impression in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, no. 2012.136.249.
2 P. Rosenberg and E. Camesasca, Tout l'œuvre peint de Watteau, Paris 1982, p. 99, no. 66.
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