File:Watteau, Jean-Antoine - Les Plaisirs du Bal - Google Art Project.jpg
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Jean-Antoine Watteau: Les Plaisirs du Bal
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| Artist |
Watteau, Jean-Antoine (1684 - 1721) – Artist Details on Google Art Project |
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| Title |
Les Plaisirs du Bal |
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| Object type | painting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | c. 1715-17 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on canvas Oil | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 525 mm (20.66 in); width: 652 mm (25.66 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
156 |
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| Object history |
Claude Glucq, Conseiller du Parlement (who had bought Watteau's Enseigne de Gersaint a few weeks after the artist's death) by 1731; Louis Pasquier by 1752, and bequethed by him to V. de Gournay in 1754; Jean de Jullienne bef. 1756; Paris, Montullé sale, 22 Dec. 1783, lot 55; Paris, Vaudreuil sale, 26 Nov. 1787, lot 60. Sold privately; Montesquiou in 1788; Paris, (either J.-A. or J.B.P., but probably the latter) Lebrun sale, 11ff. Apr. 1791, lot 197; Paris, (either J.-A. or J.B.P., but probably the latter) Lebrun sale, 15ff. Nov. 1791, lot 94; Unsold and passed to London, Noel Desenfans; Sir Abraham Hume in 1792, who exchanged it with Desenfans for another picture; again exchanged with Hume, 1797; London, Noel Desenfans, 1797-1807: London, Skinner and Dyke, Desenfans sale, 18 Mar. 1802, lot 173 ('Watteaux-Le Bal Champetre'. Descriptive Catalogue no. 68: 'This picture is known by the name of Le Bal de Watteaux, after an engraving which is in the port folio of every print collector. On a beautiful spot embellished with trees and a water spout, a superb structure supported by pillars, and ornamented with marble statues is divided into arches, opening to an extensive view; in the centre, between four columns, a splendid buffet is covered with fruits and wines, and decorated with silver vases. About seventy figures are assembled on the lawn, comprizing ladies, gentlemen, musicians and children. The dancers are in the first division on the right, and the musicians are ranged on an amphitheatre, in the opposite; more retired and surrounding the refreshments, are the rest of the company, some standing, and others seated'). Handwritten note in copy of catalogue at The Hague, RKD: '21 1/2' [i.e. 2 x 1 1/2]. Bt Elliott for £65.2 (bt in); 1804 Insurance List, no. 46 ('A Ball'. £200); London, Sir Francis Bourgeois, 1807-1811; Bourgeois Bequest, 1811. |
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| Source/Photographer | ygEIIXQmEkmkNA at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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