Name: After Jean-Antoine Watteau
Brand: L'heureux âge! Age d'or
Price: 2200.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

After Jean-Antoine Watteau
L'heureux âge! Age d'or
oil on panel, circular
10⁷⁄₈ in. (27.5 cm.) diameter
in its original(?) 18th-century French frame

(Possibly) Pierre Crozat (1655-1740) (according to the 1919 sale).
(Possibly) Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully (d. 1779), Paris (according to the 1919 sale).
Mme. S.G.; (†) Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 22 May 1919, dedicated catalogue, as 'Antoine Watteau' (30,100 francs to Leroux de Villers), with incorrect provenance.

E. Camesasca and P. Rosenberg, eds., Tout l'Oeuvre Peint de Watteau, Paris, 1982, under no. 201, as 'A copy on wood (round) [of the Kimbell Art Museum picture]', listing the provenance of La Live [de Jully] and Crozat and the sale of 1919.
Watteau: 1684-1721, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1984, under no. 50, under 'Related Paintings', as 'A round copy [of the Kimbell Art Museum picture]'.

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This painting is after Watteau's prime at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth (inv. no. AP 1981.05). Its title originates from a poem that accompanied an engraving of Watteau's painting by Nicolas Tardieu, published after Watteau's death, which reads: 'Heureux âge! Age d'or, où sans inquiétude. / Le coeur sait se livrer à d'innocents plaisirs' ('Happy Age! Golden Age, where without worry. / The heart knows how to surrender to innocent pleasures.')
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