LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

14.29 in. (36.30 cm.) (height) by 11.10 in. (28.20 cm.) (width)

Literature:

P.J. Mariette, Notes manuscrites sur les peintres et graveurs, IX, (manuscript in Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1740-1770), folio 193, no. 37. Abecedario de P.J. Mariette, ed. by Ph. De Chennevières and A. de Montaiglon, Paris, 1851-1860, VI, p. 108. E. de Goncourt, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé d'Antoine Watteau, Paris, 1875, no. 167. E. Heinreich Zimmermann, Watteau, Stuttgart & Paris, 1912, no. 27, p. 17 (Buckingham Palace copy). E. Dacier, J. Herold & A. Vauflart, Jean de Jullienne et les Graveurs de Watteau, Paris, 1921-9, III, no. 31. L. Réau, 'Watteau' in L. Dimier, Les Peintres français du XVIIIe siècle, I, Paris, 1928, p. 40, no. 118. K.T. Parker, The Drawings of Antoine Watteau, London, 1931, pp. 25 and 37 (Buckingham Palace copy). H. Adhémar, Watteau, sa Vie-son Oeuvre, Paris, 1950, pp. 45-7, 56, 147 and 185, no. 167. K.T. Parker & J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau. Catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné, Paris, 1957: I, p. 42, under no. 279; II, p. 359, under no. 839. J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau, peintures réapparues, Paris, 1959, p. 68 (dated 1713-1715). A.P. de Mirimonde, 'Les sujets musicaux chez Antoine Watteau', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 58 (1961), pp. 266-7. E. Camesasca & J. Sunderland, The Complete Paintings of Watteau, New York, 1968, p. 112, no. 144 (as lost, known through engraving). J. Ferré, Watteau, Madrid, 1972: I, pp. 151, 172, 208, 277, year 1724, 1731 (print), 1801, 1855 (print), 1877 (print); II, pp. 557-8 (as lost, known from engraving); III, pp. 813, 964, 998; IV, pp. 1111 (Buckingham Palace copy), 1118, 1128 (367). O.T. Banks, Watteau and the North: Studies in the Dutch and Flemish Baroque Influence on French Rococo Painting, New York & London, 1977, pp. 223-6 (as lost, cites Buckingham Palace copy), figs. 170-5. E. Camesasca & P. Rosenberg, Tout L'Oeuvre peint de Watteau, Paris, 1983, p. 110, no. 144. Watteau 1684-1721, exhib. cat., Washington, Paris & Berlin, 1984, pp. 38 and 347, under no. P42 (entry by P. Rosenberg). D. Posner, Antoine Watteau, Ithaca, N.Y., 1984, pp. 69 and 169 (as lost, known through engraving), fig. 58 (engraving). M. Roland-Michel, Watteau an Artist of the Eighteenth Century, London, 1984, pp. 55-6, 156, 230 and 266. E.A. Moutsopoulos, 'Les structures de la temporalité chez Watteau', in Antoine Watteau (1684-1721): The Painter, His Age and His Legend (ed. F. Moreau & M. Morgan Grasselli), Paris & Geneva, 1987, p. 145. G. Le Coat, 'Watteau et l'imaginaire social: la représentation animale comme étude de cas', in Antoine Watteau (1684-1721): The Painter, His Age and His Legend (ed. F. Moreau & M. Morgan Grasselli), Paris & Geneva, 1987, p. 183. Dessins français du XVIIIe siècle de Watteau á Lemoyne, exhib. cat., Paris, 1987, p. 79, under no. 104 (entry by J.-F. Méjanes). M. Morgan Grasselli, The Drawings of Antoine Watteau: Stylistic Development and Problems of Chronology, unpublished doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, 1987: II, pp. 249-50, under no. 168; III, fig. 296 (engraving). C.B. Bailey, Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully, New York, 1988, pp. LXVI-LXVII, 79 (lost). S. Whittingham, 'News: France', The Watteau Society Bulletin, no. 3 (1994), p. 45. P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, Antoine Watteau, 1688-1721, Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan 1996, I, p. 392 under no. 245, fig. 245b (engraving); II, p.762, under no. 459, fig. 459c (engraving). Watteau et son cercle dans les collections de l'Institute de France, Chantilly, 1996, p. 12, under cat. no. 3 (entry by N. Garnier). A. Wintermute, 'Le Pélerinage à Watteau: An Introduction to the Drawings of Watteau and His Circle', in Watteau and His World: French Drawing from 1700 to 1750, exhib. cat., 1999-2000, New York & Ottawa, p. 29 (as lost, known from engraving). P. Rosenberg, 'Watteau's Copies After the Old Masters', in Watteau and His World: French Drawing from 1700 to 1750, exhib. cat., New York & Ottawa, 1999-2000, p. 54 (as lost, known from engraving), fig. 50 (engraving). H. Börsch-Supan, Antoine Watteau 1684-1721, Cologne, 2000, p. 59, under cat. no. 49. J. Patrice Marandel, 'Quelques notes sur un tableau méconnu de Watteau' in Mélanges en Hommage à Pierre Rosenberg, Paris, 2001, p. 284. R. Temperini, Watteau, Milan & Paris, 2002, p. 63 (as lost, known from engraving). G. Glorieux, 'Watteau et le Nord' in Watteau et la fête galante, exhib. cat., Valenciennes, 2004, pp. 49-50 (as lost, known from engraving), fig. 3 (engraving); under cat. no. 56 (entry by M. Eidelberg), p. 200 (as lost, known from engraving), fig. 56.3 (engraving). C. Michel, Le 'Célèbre Watteau', Bibliothèque des Lumières, vol. LXXI, Geneva, 2008, pp. 76-7, 118, 183, 211 (as lost, known from engraving), fig. 24 (engraving).

Provenance:

Nicolas Hénin (1690-1724), Paris. Jean de Jullienne (1686-1766), Paris, by 1731. Ange-Laurent de la Live de Jully (1725-1799), Paris, by 1764. François-Michel Harenc de Presle (1710-1802), Paris; his sale, Le Brun, Paris, 16-4 April 1792, lot 51.auction cancelled; private sale to M. Robit. Citoyen François-Antoine Robit, l'aîné; sale, Paillet, Paris, 11-18 May 1801, lot 165. (411 francs to M. Vandevalle). Lady Murray, by 1848, and by inheritance to the present owners.