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Fete Champetre
Jean-Antoine Watteauc. 1722
Dulwich Picture Gallery
London, United Kingdom
The composition is related to Watteau's Halt during the Chase in the Wallace Collection. The traditional attribution to Watteau was questioned in 1912 by Zimmerman, who gave the picture to Pater, an attribution accepted by Ingersoll-Smouse.
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Details
- Title: Fete Champetre
- Creator Lifespan: 1684 - 1721
- Date: c. 1722
- Physical Dimensions: w657 x h540 cm
- Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil
- Work Nationality: French
- Support: Canvas
- Provenance: ?London, Noel Desenfans, 1786-1807: ?London, Christie's, Desenfans private sale, 8ff. Apr. 1786, lot 361 ('Watteau-Conversation in Landscape. 29 x 34 out fr. £55'); ?London, Desenfans private sale, 8ff. Jun. 1786, lot 157, as 29 x 34 in framed; ?London, Noel Desenfans (?1804 Insurance List, no. 47. 'A Conversation'. £150); London, Sir Francis Bourgeois, by 1811; Bourgeois Bequest, 1811.
- Circle of: Watteau, Jean-Antoine
- Acquisition Method: Bourgeois, Sir Peter Francis (Bequest, 1811)
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