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Les Agréments de l’été (copy 1)
Entered July 2014; revised November 2015

 

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Whereabouts unknown

Oil on canvas

82 x 71 cm

 

PROVENANCE

Lille, Mercier, Veillet, Thuillier, June 20, 1993, lot 113: École d’Antoine Watteau, Les Agréments de l’été.

Sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot (Mercier), October 11, 2009, lot 249: “École française du XVIIIe siècle, d’après Antoine WATTEAU . . . Les agrements de l’Éte ou L’escarpolette. Toile. 82 x 71 cm Reprise de la gravure de F. JOULLAIN, d’après le tableau perdu d’Antoine Watteau (voir P. Rosenberg et E. Camesasca, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Watteau, Paris, 1970, p. 125 lettre W, reproduit)."
           

REMARKS

As shown by its direction, this painting copies the Joullain engraving, and thus must date after 1732.

 

 

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Les Agréments de l’été (copy 2)
Entered July 2014

 

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Whereabouts unknown

Oil on canvas

42.5 x 21.5 cm

 

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

            Il gioco dell’altena

 

PROVENANCE

Milan, Sotheby’s, November 28, 2006, lot 245: “DA JEAN ANTOINE WATTEAU / IL GIOCO DELL’ALTENA (LES AGRÉEMENTS DE L’ETÉ)  olio su tela /  42.5 x 21.5 cm / L’opera deriva da un prototipo di J.A. Watteau, ora scomparso, noto attraverso incisioni e diverse versioni di mano di copisti (vedi G. Macchia, L’opera completa di Watteau, Milano 1968, cat. n. 2-W, p. 125). €2.000-3.000.” Sold for €2,160.

 

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

            Macchia and Montagni, L’opera completa di Watteau (1968), under cat. 2-W.

 

REMARKS

As shown by its direction, this picture is a copy after the Joullain engraving, except that it lacks the courting couple and dog in the left corner. Also, it has been extended vertically with the addition of extra foliage and sky at the top.

 

 

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Les Agréments de l’été (copy 3)
Entered July 2014; revised November 2015

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Whereabouts unknown

Oil on canvas

Measurements unknown

 

PROVENANCE

            Belgium, de Meulenaere collection. Stolen in World War II.

 

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Belgium, Répertoire d'oeuvres d'art (1948), cat. 109 (275).

Macchia and Montagni, L’opera completa di Watteau (1968), under cat. 2-W.

Ferré, Watteau (1972), cat. P76.

 

REMARKS

This reduced version of Watteau’s composition is based upon the Joullain engraving.

 

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