Jean-Antoine Watteau

Jörg Breu the Younger (German, c. 1510-1547), Artybios on Horseback Attacking Onesilus, 1543. Pen and black ink and gray wash with white gouache on gray paper, 8 3/4 × 6 11/16 in. (22.2 × 17 cm). Gift in Honor of Charles Ryskamp on his 10th Anniversary as Director. Morgan Library & Museum, Thaw Collection, 1978.38. WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- Over the past fifty years, New York art dealer and philanthropist Eugene V. Thaw assembled one of the world’s finest private collections of drawings. The collection,... [Lire la suite]

De Watteau à David, la collection Horvitz : Affiche. PARIS - Le Petit Palais est heureux de présenter un florilège de près de 200 tableaux, sculptures et dessins du XVIIIe siècle français de la Collection Horvitz à Boston. Constituée depuis trois décennies, il s’agit de la plus importante collection privée de dessins français du XVIIIe siècle à l’étranger. Riche d’œuvres de premier plan de Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, Greuze et David... Cette collection offre aussi une vue d’ensemble de tous les artistes notables de la période,... [Lire la suite]

Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721), The Portal of Valenciennes, ca. 1710–11 (detail). Oil on canvas 12 3/4 x 16 inches The Frick Collection; purchased with funds from the bequest of Arthemise Redpath, 1991. Photo: Michael Bodycomb. NEW YORK, NY.- Most know Jean-Antoine Watteau as a painter of amorous aristocrats and melancholy actors, a dreamer of exquisite parklands and impossibly refined fêtes. Few artists would seem further removed from the misery of war. And yet, early in his short career, Watteau created a number of... [Lire la suite]

Francis Bacon, Untitled (Three Figures), C. 1981, Dublin City, Gallery The Hugh Lane © The Estate of Francis Bacon. BRUSSELS.- The Centre for Fine Arts starts the new year with an exceptional programme of exhibitions; true to the Centre's mission, these turn a spotlight on European culture. The exhibitions explore in depth the work of a number of leading artists from neighbouring countries, focusing on 18th-century France and Antoine Watteau, on Germany after the fall of the Wall, via the monumental works of Neo Rauch, and on... [Lire la suite]

Jean-Antoine Watteau (French, 1684–1721), The Italian Comedians, ca. 1720. Oil on canvas. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the acquisition of The Italian Comedians (ca. 1720) by Jean-Antoine Watteau (French, 1684–1721). The large oil painting (50 7/8” x 36 3/4“) was painted at the height of Watteau’s fame, shortly before his early death at age 36. “This major, little-known painting is extraordinary. It shows Watteau at the height of his creative genius,” said James... [Lire la suite]

Jean-Antoine Watteau (Valenciennes 1684-1721), La Surprise, oil on panel, 14.1/2 x 11.1/2 in. (36.3 x 28.2 cm.) Estimate: £3,000,000 - £5,000,000. Christie's Images Ltd 2008. NEW YORK, N.Y.- Antoine Watteau’s magnificent picture La Surprise has long been deemed a masterpiece of eighteenth-century French painting by scholars and connoisseurs. The panel was originally in the collection of Nicolas Hénin (1691–1724), Councilor to the King and a close friend of the artist, for whom it may have been painted. The work then entered several... [Lire la suite]

A Meissen gold-mounted snuff box, circa 1745-50. Photo Bonhams Of trefoil shape, finely painted in black monochrome with Watteauesque scenes, within three arched panels around the side below gilt scrolling foliage, trellis panels and flowers, above a moulded rim with black and gilt-striped border, the base with a similar scene within a moulded black-ground border reserved with scrollwork and flowers, the cover and inside cover with scenes after Watteau, the box interior gilt, 5.7cm wide; 4.5cm high (minor wear) - Estimate:... [Lire la suite]

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 'Woman Wearing a Mantle over her Head and Shoulders' (detail), c.1718-19. Red and black chalks and graphite on paper, 197 x 179 mm. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, inv. 1831. Photo © Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA / Michael Agee. The Royal Academy of Arts presents the first major retrospective exhibition of Jean-Antoine Watteau’s (1684 – 1721) drawings to be held in the UK. The display contains over 80 works on paper produced by the French... [Lire la suite]

Georges Seurat, Seated Nude: Study for 'Une Baignade', 1883. Conte crayon on cream paper: 31.70 x 24.70 cm. National Gallery of Scotland EDINBURGH.- An outstanding collection of French master drawings will be the focus of a new display at the National Gallery Complex in Edinburgh next spring. Over the last thirty years the Gallery has carefully and deliberately strengthened its holdings in this area, and is now home to one of the best collections of French drawings in the UK. Among the 60 works on show, ranging in date from the... [Lire la suite]

Gaetano Gandolfi, Portrait of Emidio Gandolfi, est. £80,000-120,000. photo Sotheby's LONDON.- Sales of important private collections have always been the lifeblood of the art market, returning long-hidden material into circulation and also serving as a fascinating permanent record of the taste and eye of an individual collector. In the Old Master field at least, such sales are rather less frequent now than in previous generations, so they are ever more eagerly awaited by private and institutional buyers alike. Formerly owned,... [Lire la suite]