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Les Enfants de Momus (copy 1)
Entered February 2022


alte copy 1

Location unknown

Materials unknown

Measurements unknown

 

PROVENANCE

Paris, collection of sieur de Lalande

 

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Dacier, Vuaflart, and Hérold, Jean de Jullienne et les graveurs (1921-29), under cat. 119.

Wildenstein, Rapport d’experts (1921), col. 44.
           
Glorieux, À l’Enseigne de Gersaint (2002), 234-35.

 

REMARKS

This copy after the engraving of Watteau’s Les Enfants de Momus was painted by Charles André Tramblin, as part of a large ensemble executed by this well-established eighteenth-century copyist. They were painted for an otherwise unidentified sieur de Lalande. The commission included copies after other Watteau compositions (including La Cause badine), as well as copies after Pater and Lancret—all of which were apparently based on engravings after these master’s works. A report dated October 21, 1747, and signed by the painters Jacques Pingat and Pierre Jacques Gasselins appraised the value of the ensemble.

 

 

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