Fête champêtre or L'Aventurière
after Jean-Antoine Watteau (Valenciennes 1684 - Paris 1721)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1700 - 1729
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
470 x 560 x 50 mm
Place of origin
France
Order this imageCollection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 32573
Summary
Oil painting on panel, Fête champêtre or 'L'Aventurière after Jean-Antoine Watteau (Valenciennes 1684 - Paris 1721), early 18th century. A landscape with a pierrot, two ladies and a gentleman. The original painting is in the Musée des Beaux Arts, Troyes.
Provenance
Hugh A.J.Munro of Novar (1819-1885); his sale Christie's, 1 June 1878, lot 148 (£315), to Goupil for Antony Gibbs; purchased by the National Trust from the estate of the late George Richard Lawley Gibbs, 2nd Baron Wraxall (1928 – 2001) with the assistance of the NHMF, Art Fund and donations from members and supporters in 2002
Credit line
Tyntesfield, The Gibbs Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: WATTEAU Verso: On back, paper label; / WATTEAU. / 148 A FETE CHAMPETRE, with Pierrot and three other figures / on the right, and four other figures in the distance on the left 12 x 15 1/2 in/ Verso: Paper label; / Goupil and Comp.y / (of . Paris) / Publishers and Dealers in / Foreign Pictures, Engravings, / and other Works of Art
Makers and roles
after Jean-Antoine Watteau (Valenciennes 1684 - Paris 1721), publisher