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L'Heureux moment (copy 1)
Entered January 2024
Presumed lost
Oil on canvas
Measurements unknown
PROVENANCE
Paris, with Charles André Tremblin, recorded there in 1747.
SELECT BIBLIOGRAHY
Wildenstein, Rapports d’experts (1921), col. 44.
Dacier, Vuaflart, and Hérold, Jean de Jullienne et les graveurs (1921-29), 3: under cat. 10.
Glorieux, À l’Enseigne de Gersaint (2002), 234-35.
REMARKS
The 1747 inventory of the studio of the relatively well-known copyist, Charles André Tremblin, lists a number of copies after Watteau, Lancret, and other contemporary painters. Among them are two works described as “deux tableaux dont l’un représente une berge [bergerie?] de Vateaux, & un berger & un berge; & l’autre représentant l’heureux moment.” Despite the unclear wording, the second was indisputably L’Heureux moment.
Tremblin’s copies were acknowledged to be after the prints in the Oeuvre gravé. Their later fate is not known.
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