The Wedding Procession

Jean-Antoine Watteauc. 1712

Details

Title: The Wedding Procession
Creator: Antoine Watteau
Date Created: c. 1712
Physical Dimensions: overall: 22.2 x 17.1 cm (8 3/4 x 6 3/4 in.)
Provenance: Possibly M. Aubert; (sale, Paris, 2 March 1786, no. 90). Émile Galichon; (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 10 May 1875, no. 173); Louis Galichon, Paris (Lugt 1060); (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 4-9 March 1895, no. 169); Alfred Louis Lebeuf de Montgermont [1841-1918], Paris; (his estate sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 16-19 June 1919, no. 292); Gentile di Giuseppe; Private Collection, France; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 9 June 1955, no. 70, as coming from the château of Haut Buc in Seine-et-Oise). Curtis O. Baer [1898-1976], New Rochelle, New York, from 1957; his son, George Baer, Atlanta and Mexico City, from 1976; (Jill Newhouse, New York, 1999); purchased 1999 by NGA.
Medium: red chalk over red chalk counterproof on laid paper

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