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Les Saisons Jullienne (copy 1)
Entered April 2025

Whereabouts unknown

Oil on canvas

41 x 34 cm

 

PROVENANCE

Munich, Galerie E. A. Fleischmann, advertised for sale in an unidentified magazine, c. 1920-1935.

 

REMARKS

Although the painting was attributed to Michel Bartélémy Ollivier (1712-1784) when it was on the market, it is only an anonymous copy after the central portion of Watteau’s L’Été from the Saisons Jullienne.

 

Les Saisons Jullienne (copy 2)
Entered April 2025

L’Été

Whereabouts unknown

Oil on canvas mounted on panel

32 x 45 cm

 

 

Le Printemps

Whereabouts unknown

Oil on canvas mounted on panel

32 x 45 cm

 

PROVENANCE

Paris, sale, Delorme & Colin du Bocage, December 13, 2013, lot 1: "Ecole FRANCAISE du XIXème siècle. . . / Estimation: 1200 € / 1500 € / Ecole FRANCAISE du XIXème siècle, d’après Antoine WATTEAU / Le Printemps / L’Eté / Paire de toiles marouflées sur panneaux. / 53,5 x 100,5 cm / Restaurations / Sans cadre / Reprises avec des variantes des gravures d’après les Saisons Julienne de Watteau (Toile, 32 x 45 cm), dont une, Le Printemps, est conservée dans une collection particulière (voir M. Roland Michel, Watteau. Un artiste au XVIIIème siècle, Paris, 1984, fig. n° 227, reproduit)" Bought in.

 

REMARKS

Essentially these two paintings are just copies after the Jullienne engravings of Watteau’s Saisons Jullienne, but significant changes were introduced. Both compositions were distended into a wider format, with increased space between the figures. This copy after L’Été is in the same direction as the Jullienne engraving, but the copy after Le Printemps is the reverse of the  engraving.

One wonders whether these two paintings were originally executed as a decorative pair, or whether they were part of a fuller set of the Four Seasons.