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Les Comédiens sur le champ de foire (copy 1)

Entered June 2019

 

Le Bosquet de Bacchus (Copy 1)

 

Whereabouts unknown

Oil on canvas

72 x 97 cm.

 

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Fête de la foire du Lendit

Ländlicher Jahrmarkt mit Schauspielern

 

PROVENANCE

Paris, with Victor Alvin-Beaumont (b. 1862; artist, dealer, critic).

Sale, Versailles, Palais des Congrès, March 3, 1968, lot 145: “WATTEAU Antoine (Ecole de) (XVIIIe siècle . . . Fête de la foire du Lendit. Toile, Haut. 72 cm. Larg. 97 cm / (Voir la reproduction ci-contre).”

 

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Adhémar, Watteau (1950), under cat. 51. 

Washington, Paris, Berlin, Watteau 1684-1721 (1984), under cat. 10.

Vogtherr, Französische Gemälde, under cat. 1.

 

REMARKS

This is a reduced version of Watteau’s composition. For example, it does not include the group at the left of commedia dell’arte characters courting the seated women, nor does it include the group of figures in Oriental costume. So too, the Roman buildings at the right are missing and the shaping and disposition of the trees do not follow the model provided by Watteau.

 

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Les Comédiens sur le champ de foire (copy 2)

Entered June 2019

 

Le Bosquet de Bacchus (Copy 1)

 

Whereabouts unknown

Oil on canvas

64 x 79 cm

 

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Fête dans un parc

Ländlicher Jahrmarkt mit Schauspielern

 

PROVENANCE

Versailles, Palais des Congrés, May 3, 1968, lot 146: “de BAR Bonaventure (Attribué à) (XVIIIe siècle). Fête dans un parc. Toile. Cadre ancien, bois sculpté. Haut. 64 cm. Larg. 79 cm.”

 

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Washington, Paris, Berlin, Watteau 1684-1721 (1984), under cat. 10.

Eidelberg, Bonavenrure de Bar, cat. X21, http://watteauandhiscircle.org/de%20bar%202.htm.

Vogtherr, Französische Gemälde, under cat. 1.

 

REMARKS

This anonymous copy after Watteau’s composition is essentially faithful in repeating the figural elements, but the original  landscape has been replaced by a different arrangement of tree and, at the right, by a more standard rendering of a French town. The attribution proposed in 1968 to Bonaventure de Bar does not bear scrutiny.

 

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