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Maître Brice Pescheteau-Badin
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Bonaventure de BAR (1700-1729)
A Country Ball
Canvas
65.
See original version (French)
27
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Bonaventure de BAR (1700-1729)
A Country Ball
Canvas
65.
See original version (French)
Estimate €8,000 - €12,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Bonaventure de BAR (1700-1729)
A Country Ball
Canvas
65.5 x 81 cm.
On the back a Watteau label and a n°4 and N°22
Provenance :
- Sale of the cabinet of the late?(Papillon de La Ferté), Paris, Lebrun et Landais, 20 fevrier 1797, n°81;
- Collection of the Viscountess of Courvalen 1884;
- Remained with her descendants until 1997;
- Sale Paris, Hotel Drouot, 23 June 1997, Mes Chayette et Cheval, no. 23 (285,000frs)
- acquired at this date by the current owners.
Bibliography:
- Georges Wildenstein, Lancret, Paris 1924, N° 408 (Lancret);
- J.Mathey, Antoine Watteau, peintures réapparues, Paris 1959, p.19.
Exhibition: L'art au XVIIIè siècle, Paris, galerie Georges Petit, 1883-1884, n°118 (Lancret)
It was David Carrit who, in 1978, identified our painting with the one in the former collection of
Papillon de La Ferté collection. This excellent draughtsman, a pupil of Boucher, had one of the finest collections of the late eighteenth century.
of the late eighteenth century; the catalogue of his sale after his death is extremely precise: "N°81 DE BAR, Un bal
champêtre composé de 26 figures formant des groupes variés et agréables". This painting must be considered as
one of the master's most important, combining Watteau's spirit and colour.
See original version (French)
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