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Mezetin (copy 1)
Entered April 2026
Whereabouts unknown
Oil on canvas
25.6 x 21 cm
PROVENANCE
New York, Sotheby’s Colonnade, February 23, 1994, lot 313: “After Jean-Antoine Watteau, Mezzetin . . . Estimate 1,500 – 2,000 GBP (2,213 – 2,951 USD).” Sold for 1,840 GBP (2,715 USD).
London, Christie’s, October 21, 1994, lot 123: “AFTER JEAN-ANTOINE WATTEAU / Mezzetin / unframed, 10 x 8⅛in. (25.7 x 20.5cm.) / After Benoit Audran’s engraving of circa 1735, based on the picture by Watteau in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York / Estimate: £2,000-3,000.”
REMARKS
A great many paintings attributed to Watteau and described as “Mezetin” but without any image, are listed in nineteenth- and twentieth-century sale catalogues. But they generally cannot be identified with certainty as being after the composition in the Metropolitan Museum, especially since Watteau executed a number of compositions which feature this commedia dell’arte actor. Even though this picture can without doubt be linked to the New York painting, it is only a copy based on the Audran engraving.
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