Lot 80
Lot 80
After Jean-Antoine Watteau

L'heureux âge! Age d'or

Price Realised USD 2,750
Estimate
USD 3,000 - USD 5,000
Closed: 19 Jun 2020
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After Jean-Antoine Watteau

L'heureux âge! Age d'or

Price Realised USD 2,750
Closed: 19 Jun 2020
Price Realised USD 2,750
Closed: 19 Jun 2020
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After Jean-Antoine Watteau
L'heureux âge! Age d'or
oil on panel, circular
1078 in. (27.5 cm.) diameter
in its original(?) 18th-century French frame
Provenance
(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.
Literature
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 lot is offered without reserve.
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