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Mezzetin à la guitare (copy 1)

Entered September 2020

Whereabouts unknown

Oil on canvas

78.1 x 60.3 cm

             
ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Scaramouche

 

PROVENANCE

Paris, collection of C. R. His sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, March 30-April 2, 1914, cat. 181: Jean-Antoine Watteau, Scaramouche

 

REMARKS

It was not known that the Vaduz painting had a copy, one which showed the actor full length and in a more extensive landscape setting. Depicting the figure full length deprives the composition of its original power.

According to a notation in the Frick Art Reference Library, on February 25, 1925, René Gimpel saw the photograph of this painting and attributed it to the school of Watteau, i.e., that it was not by the master himself. But at that time no one was aware of the Vaduz original.

 

 

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