Keywords: Watteau, Jean-Antoine - Les Plaisirs du Bal - Google Art Project.jpg 1684 1684 1721 1721 Jean-Antoine 545193 Watteau 1684 - 1721 /collection/dulwich-picture-gallery/artwork/les-plaisirs-du-bal-watteau-jean-antoine/542118/ Watteau Jean-Antoine Artist /artist/antoine-watteau/4127128/ 4127128 /collection/dulwich-picture-gallery/ Dulwich Picture Gallery 363171 http //www dulwichpicturegallery org uk/ 12/28/2011 11 55 45 PM /collection/dulwich-picture-gallery/artwork/les-plaisirs-du-bal-watteau-jean-antoine/542118/ 1715 c 1715-17 French Oil Canvas Claude Glucq Conseiller du Parlement who had bought Watteau's Enseigne de Gersaint a few weeks after the artist's death by 1731; Louis Pasquier by 1752 and bequethed by him to V de Gournay in 1754; Jean de Jullienne bef 1756; Paris Montullé sale 22 Dec 1783 lot 55; Paris Vaudreuil sale 26 Nov 1787 lot 60 Sold privately; Montesquiou in 1788; Paris either J -A or J B P but probably the latter Lebrun sale 11ff Apr 1791 lot 197; Paris either J -A or J B P but probably the latter Lebrun sale 15ff Nov 1791 lot 94; Unsold and passed to London Noel Desenfans; Sir Abraham Hume in 1792 who exchanged it with Desenfans for another picture; again exchanged with Hume 1797; London Noel Desenfans 1797-1807 London Skinner and Dyke Desenfans sale 18 Mar 1802 lot 173 'Watteaux-Le Bal Champetre' Descriptive Catalogue no 68 'This picture is known by the name of Le Bal de Watteaux after an engraving which is in the port folio of every print collector On a beautiful spot embellished with trees and a water spout a superb structure supported by pillars and ornamented with marble statues is divided into arches opening to an extensive view; in the centre between four columns a splendid buffet is covered with fruits and wines and decorated with silver vases About seventy figures are assembled on the lawn comprizing ladies gentlemen musicians and children The dancers are in the first division on the right and the musicians are ranged on an amphitheatre in the opposite; more retired and surrounding the refreshments are the rest of the company some standing and others seated' Handwritten note in copy of catalogue at The Hague RKD '21 1/2' i e 2 x 1 1/2 Bt Elliott for £65 2 bt in ; 1804 Insurance List no 46 'A Ball' £200 ; London Sir Francis Bourgeois 1807-1811; Bourgeois Bequest 1811 525 542118 False 1717 9/26/2012 10 32 55 AM 156 Painting 1710 1720 w652 x h525 cm c 1715-17 False 1 2518337408313 Object les-plaisirs-du-bal-watteau-jean-antoine Les Plaisirs du Bal l 652 Bourgeois Sir Peter Francis Bequest 1811 Oil Claude Glucq Conseiller du Parlement who had bought Watteau's Enseigne de Gersaint a few weeks after the artist's death by 1731; Louis Pasquier by 1752 and bequethed by him to V de Gournay in 1754; Jean de Jullienne bef 1756; Paris Montullé sale 22 Dec 1783 lot 55; Paris Vaudreuil sale 26 Nov 1787 lot 60 Sold privately; Montesquiou in 1788; Paris either J -A or J B P but probably the latter Lebrun sale 11ff Apr 1791 lot 197; Paris either J -A or J B P but probably the latter Lebrun sale 15ff Nov 1791 lot 94; Unsold and passed to London Noel Desenfans; Sir Abraham Hume in 1792 who exchanged it with Desenfans for another picture; again exchanged with Hume 1797; London Noel Desenfans 1797-1807 London Skinner and Dyke Desenfans sale 18 Mar 1802 lot 173 'Watteaux-Le Bal Champetre' Descriptive Catalogue no 68 'This picture is known by the name of Le Bal de Watteaux after an engraving which is in the port folio of every print collector On a beautiful spot embellished with trees and a water spout a superb structure supported by pillars and ornamented with marble statues is divided into arches opening to an extensive view; in the centre between four columns a splendid buffet is covered with fruits and wines and decorated with silver vases About seventy figures are assembled on the lawn comprizing ladies gentlemen musicians and children The dancers are in the first division on the right and the musicians are ranged on an amphitheatre in the opposite; more retired and surrounding the refreshments are the rest of the company some standing and others seated' Handwritten note in copy of catalogue at The Hague RKD '21 1/2' i e 2 x 1 1/2 Bt Elliott for £65 2 bt in ; 1804 Insurance List no 46 'A Ball' £200 ; London Sir Francis Bourgeois 1807-1811; Bourgeois Bequest 1811 Canvas French special url_id ygEIIXQmEkmkNA PD-old-100-1923 1721 Google Art Project works by Antoine Watteau Antoine Watteau |