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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1838,0526.1.4
Title: Object: Fêtes Vénitiennes; Series: L'Oeuvre d'Antoine Watteau Peintre du Roy; Series: Recueil Jullienne
Description: Fête champêtre, after Watteau, with men and woman sitting in a park beside a fountain decorated with the statue of a nymph and, at centre a woman curtseying to a man dressed in black standing on the right; after Watteau. 1732 Etching and engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Laurent Cars; After: Antoine Watteau
School/style: French
Production date: 1732
Materials: paper
Technique: etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 500 millimetres; Width: 371 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Plate 4 from 'L'Oeuvre d'Antoine Watteau'; see 1838-5-26-1-1 for comment. Advertised in 'Mercure', July 1732. Torn in the lower margin.
Bibliographic references: Dacier & Vuaflart 1921-29 / Jean de Jullienne et les graveurs de Watteau au XVIIIe siècle (6.IV); IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes (30.II)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: fête champêtre
Acquisition name: Purchased from: John Constable (his sale, Foster's, London, 12.v.1838/497 (containing two Watteau volumes), bt by William Smith for £31.10.0)
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: John Barnard
Acquisition date: 1838
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1838,0526.1.4

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