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Les Amusements champêtres (copy 1)
Entered April 2015
Whereabouts unknown
Medium unknown
Measurements unknown
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Washington, Paris and Berlin, Watteau 1684-1721 (1984), under cat. P52.
REMARKS
Rosenberg, the only scholar to cite this painting, wrote that is an apparently old copy that he knew only from a photograph. He did not reproduce it but described it as showing the central section of Amusements champêtres, namely the man crowning the woman with flowers.
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Les Amusements champêtres (copy 2)
Entered October 2019
Whereabouts unknown
Oil on canvas
35.5 x 41.5 cm.
PROVENANCE
Versailles, Palais des congres. Sale, May 29, 1968, lot 52: “DIETRICH (Ecole de) / (XVIIIe siècle) / Scènes galantes. / Deux toiles se faisant pendant. Haut. 33,5 cm. Larg. 41.5 cm (Voir la reproduction ci-contre).”
REMARKS
Despite the attribution to Dietrich, the two paintings sold in 1968 are only copies after the Jullienne engravings of Les Amusements Champêtres and Le Passetemps.
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