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L’Alte (copy 1)
Entered August 2014; revised January 2017

alte copy 1

Whereabouts unknown

Oil on panel

39 x 47 cm

 

PROVENANCE

Zurich, Konta collection, c. 1977

 

EXHIBITIONS

Paris, Musée de la monnaie, Pèlerinage (1977), cat. 174 (as French School 18th Century, Alte, lent by a Swiss private collection).

 

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Washington, Paris, and Berlin, Watteau 1684-1721 (1984), under cat. P5.

 

REMARKS

This copy of L’Alte is in the same direction and relatively the same size as the original Watteau painting. It has as a pendant a copy of Le Défilé.  

 

 

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L’Alte (copy 2)
Entered August 2014

alte copy 2

Whereabouts unknown

Oil on panel

30.5 x 40.6 cm

 

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

            An Encampment

 

PROVENANCE

London, collection of Sir Frank Newson-Smith (1879-1971); his sale, London, Christie’s, January 26, 1951, lot 135: “A. WATTEAU . . . AN ENCAMPMENT with ladies and soldiers near a tree—on panel—12in. by 16in.” Sold for £84 to Thorburn according to a photograph in the Witt Library.

 

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

            Washington, Paris, and Berlin, Watteau 1684-1721 (1984), under cat. P5.

 

REMARKS

Sir Frank Newson-Smith’s picture may have originally been owned by his father, Sir Henry Newson-Smith (1854-1898), a chartered accountant and theatrical entrepreneur who had a great interest in art.

 

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L’Alte (copy 3)
Entered August 2014

 

fing blank

 

Whereabouts unknown

(?) Oil on panel

31 x 40 cm

 

PROVENANCE

Paris, collection of Baron Ernest Sellière (1866-1955).

 

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

            Reau, “Watteau” (1928), cat. 45.

            Washington, Paris, and Berlin, Watteau 1684-1721 (1984), under cat. P5.

 

REMARKS

In the early years of the twentieth century, when Lord Leconfield’s painting was essentially unknown to most critics, especially those outside of England, Réau and others thought that Baron Sellières’ version of L’Alte was Watteau’s original work. All this changed in the postwar years when the Leconfield painting became better known and was accepted. Sellière’s painting fell from sight.