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La Coquette (copy 1)
Entered July 2018
Whereabouts unknown
Oil on canvas
43 x 60 cm
PROVENANCE
Paris, sale, Hôtel Drouot, March 24, 1909, lot 16: “WATTEAU (Attribué à ANTOINE)…La Coquette…Pierrot, au bras de sa femme, occupé par le vieux Cassandre, ne semble pas se douter que la coquette écoute amoureusement les avances d’une jeune courtisan…Cadre en bois sculpté…Toile.-Haut., 43 cent.; larg., 60 cent.“
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Croft-Murray, “Watteau’s Fan-Leaf" (1974), 181.
REMARKS
As the presence of Cassandre at the left side indicates, this painting was based on Boucher’s engraving after La Coquette. The painter repeated only the four characters of Watteau’s composition, eliminated the surrounding ornament, and added trees and foliage to flesh out the canvas.