Lot 64
  • 64

Follower of Jean-Antoine Watteau

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Jean-Antoine Watteau
  • The Marriage Contract; The Village Bride
  • a pair, both oil on canvas
  • each: 45.6 x 63.2 cm.; 18 x 24 7/8  in.

Catalogue Note

The present compositions relate closely to Jean-Antoine Watteau's paintings of the same subjects in the Sir John Soane Museum, London, and in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.2 1. Inv no. P111; see P. Rosenberg and E. Camesasca, Tout l’œuvre peint de Watteau, Paris 1982, p. 107, cat. no. 127, reproduced p. 106.
2. See Rosenberg and Camesasca 1982, p. 99, cat. no. 63, reproduced.