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La Game d'amour (copy 1)
Entered April 2023

Whereabouts unknown

Medium unknown

Measurements unknown

 

PROVENANCE

Paris, collection of Alexandre-Marie Colin (1795-1876; painter). His sale, Paris, Feral, Mannheim, Boussaton, February 2, 1876, lot 392: “WATTEAU [copie d’après] . . . La Gamme d’amour.”

           

REMARKS

This and most of Colin’s paintings in his sale were replicas after other masters’ compositions.

 

 

 

La Game d'amour (copy 2)
Entered April 2023

Whereabouts unknown

Oil on canvas

87.6 x 72.4 cm 

 

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Fête galante

 

PROVENANCE

Bagnères-de-Bigorre.

New York, Newhouse Galleries; advertised in Antiques, May 1969, 609.

 

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Davies, French School (1946), 93.

Adhémar, Watteau (1950), under cat. 169).

Washington, Paris, Berlin, Watteau (1984), under cat. P 15.

           

REMARKS

The ascription of the painting to Christian Dietricy (1712-1774) is based on its signature: “Dietricy Pinx 1753.” As the reverse direction of the composition demonstrates, Dietricy copied the engraving by Jean Philippe Le Bas and not the original Watteau painting. Also, among the many changes he introduced, he converted the format from a horizontal to a vertical one, and his trees do not correspond to those painted by Watteau.

 

 

 

La Game d'amour (copy 3)
Entered April 2023

Whereabouts unknown

Medium unknown

Measurements unknown

 

PROVENANCE

London, with W. E. Duits Ltd. Gallery (closed 1979).

Sold to Jacques Seligmann & Co. (before 1978).

           

REMARKS

This is a fairly faithful copy of La Game d’amour but it is the reverse of Watteau’s painting, indicating that it was based on Jean Philipe Le Bas’ engraving. There are some minor changes: the woman in the background at the left is more upright and turns at a slightly different angle than Watteau’s. Although the sleeping dog added in the foreground resembles many other such dogs in Watteau’s paintings, there is none in La Game d’amour. Finally, the somewhat square shape of this picture does not correspond to the more horizontal format that Watteau painted, and the trees and openings to the sky are free inventions on Watteau’s composition.

 

This copy after Watteau’s La Game d’amour had a pendant, a pastiche also based on motifs from Watteau’s fêtes galantes. The man and woman repeat figures from the Jullienne engraving after Les Deux cousines, and the children are related to engravings after pictures such as Les Champs Elisées in the Wallace collection.

 

 

La Game d'amour (copy 4)
Entered April 2023

Whereabouts unknown

Oil on panel

33 x 45 cm

 

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Dacier, Vuaflart, and Hérold, Jean de Jullienne et les graveurs, 3: under cat. 199.

 

PROVENANCE

Brussels, Charles Iweins collection. Sold Brussels, de Brauwere, April 11, 1892, lot 101: “WATTEAU (JEAN-ANTOINE) La Game d’amour, Sujet reproduit dans l’oeuvre gravée de Watteau. Bois: 33-45.”

           

REMARKS

Without an image of the painting, it is impossible to draw any conclusions about it. This picture was paired with a pendant, described as "Sujet pastoral."

 

 

 

La Game d'amour (copy 5)
Entered April 2023

Whereabouts unknown

Oil on canvas

49.5 x 60 cm

 

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Wine, Eighteenth Century French Paintings (2018), 550.

 

PROVENANCE

Chelsea, Bonhams, January 11, 2000, lot 272: "Continental School, c.1900, After Watteau, Figures in a clearing, oil on canvas, indistinctly signed & inscribed 'Dupres Watteau, M Behar?', 49.5 x 60cm £250-350."

           

REMARKS

This copy is in the same direction and approximately the same size as the original in the National Gallery, London.

 

 

 

La Game d'amour (copy 6)
Entered April 2023

Whereabouts unknown

Oil on canvas

16.5 x 23 cm

 

           
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Wine, French Eighteenth Century Painting (2018), 550.

 

PROVENANCE

Douai, Eurl SVVV Patrick Declerck, November 29, 2010, lot 79: Ecole française fin XIX-début XXe, oil on canvas, 16.5 x 23 cm. 

REMARKS

Without an image of the painting, it is not possible to draw any conclusions about this copy, which is only a third the size of the original Watteau in the National Gallery.

 

 

 

La Game d'amour (copy 7)
Entered April 2023

Whereabouts unknown

Oil on canvas

78.7 x 62.2 cm

 

           
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Wine, French Eighteenth Century Painting (2018), 548.

 

PROVENANCE

London, sale, Christie’s, April 6, 1955, lot 175: "LANCRET . . . THE LOVE SONG—31in. by 24½in.” According to the annotated sale catalogue in the Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the picture sold for £25.4 to Waters.

           

REMARKS

As this painting is the reverse of the picture in the London National Gallery, it must have been copied from Jean Philippe Le Bas’ engraving.

 

 

 

La Game d'amour (copy 8)
Entered April 2023

Whereabouts unknown

Medium unknown

Measurements unknown

 

PROVENANCE

Paris, sale, Hôtel Drouot, May 18-19, 1825, lot 87: “WATEAU (Antoine) (D’après) . . . La Game d’amour. Peinture decorative sur toile.”

           

REMARKS

Without the painting’s measurements or image, nothing conclusive can be said about the picture.

 

 

 

La Game d'amour (copy 9)
Entered April 2023

Whereabouts unknown

Oil on canvas

91.4 x 72.4 cm

 

PROVENANCE

USA, ebay, circa December 13, 2017, seller no. 10962: “19THC Signed Eugene Blasset o/c 36” x 28.5”  PAINTING BY BAPTIST OR WATTEAU / couple playing music – relined OTSS Price US $5,400.00.”

USA, ebay, circa August 17, 2018, seller no. 10962: “Eugene Blasset o/c 36"x28.5" couple playing music - Painting by Jean Baptist, Joseph Pater, or Antoine Watteau condition: relined. A fine Artwork . . . $5,400.”

           

REMARKS

Eugène Blasset was a French late nineteenth-century painter of landscapes. Here he copied the Le Bas engraving after Watteau’s composition.

 

 

 

La Game d'amour (copy 10)
Entered April 2023

Whereabouts unknown

Oil on canvas

57 x 71 cm

 

           
ALTERNATIVE TITLE

La Leçon de musique

 

PROVENANCE

Troyes, sale, Hôtel des ventes de Troyes, January 29, 2022, lot 411: “Ecole du XIX's : La leçon de musique dans le goût de Watteau. H.s.T. signée, 57 x 71.”  

           

REMARKS

This gauche, partial rendering of Watteau’s composition was based on the Le Bas engraving. The supposed signature is obviously spurious.

 

 

 

 

La Game d'amour (copy 11)
Entered April 2023

Whereabouts unknown

Oil on copper

22.2 x 27.9 cm

 

PROVENANCE

London, sale, Christie’s, November 11, 1955, lot 53: “J. B. PATER / THE LOVE SONG—on copper—8 ¾ in. by 11 in.” According to the annotated sale catalogue in the Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the picture sold for £99 to Vanderkar.

 

REMARKS

As can be seen by the reversed direction of the composition, this copy of Watteau’s painting was based on the Le Bas engraving.