Jean-Antoine Watteau

Exhibitions

1991 The Loves of the Gods: Mythological Painting from Watteau to David, Nr. 14

Provenance

Possibly executed c. 1715-16 and paid for in May 1717 by Léopold-Philippe-Charles-Joseph, duc d'Arenberg (1690-1754)
acquired in Brussels by "M. Simonet de Paris" in 1847
Théodore Patureau
his sale, Paris 20-21 April 1857, nr. 63 to Bourlon de Sarty
Bourlon de Sarty
his sales, Paris 4-5 May 1865, nr. 202 (bought in)
his sales Paris, 9-11 March 1868, nr. 44 to Horsin
Dr. Louis La Caze, who gave the painting to the Louvre in 1869
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Other works by Jean-Antoine Watteau

The Italian Comedians
c. 1720

Pierrot
c. 1718

Merry Company
c. 1718-20

Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera
1717

Assembly in a Park