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Circle of Antoine Watteau
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description
- Antoine Watteau
- Rustic festival in a rocky wooded landscape
- signed lower left: Watteau
- oil on canvas
- 28 1/2 x 38 3/8 inches
Provenance
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 18 December 1980, lot 20 (as by Watteau de Lille);
There purchased by the present owner.
There purchased by the present owner.
Catalogue Note
The foreground figural group in this painting is taken from Watteau's Le Mariée de village (Château de Sans-Souci, Potsdam). The arrangement of the group in the present composition, however, follows that of Charles-Nicolas Cochin's engraving from 1729 (an example of which is the National Gallery of Art, Washington, inv. 1942.9.2092).