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X. Soldiers on the March
Entered November 2019
Dulwich, Dulwich Picture Gallery, inv. DPG 620
Oil on canvas
49.8 x 62.2 cm
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Encampment of Soldiers
A Troop Encampment
PROVENANCE
Collection of Florence Mary Gibbs (1861-1951), Clifton House, Datchet (Berkshire); gifted to the Dulwich Art Gallery in 1951.
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Murray, Dulwich Picture Gallery (1980), 137, cat. 620.
REMARKS
Charles Nicolas Cochin after Watteau, Le Retour de campagne, 1727, engraving.
Lauren Cars after Watteau, L’Escorte d’équipage, 1731, engraving.
Various attributions have been posited for this painting, including Nicolas Lancret and an imitator of Jean-Baptiste Pater. Although now considered to be an eighteenth-century copy after Watteau, more accurately it is an anonymous pastiche of uncertain date. The major portion of the composition—a convoy of soldiers descending down a hill—was based on Charles Nicolas Cochin’s engraving after Watteau’s Le Retour de campagne. On the other hand, the group in the lower right corner is based on Lauren Cars’ engraving after Watteau’s Escorte d’équipage.