The Italian Comedians (copy), 19th century

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Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 63.8 x 76 cm (25 1/8 x 29 15/16 in.)

framed: 80.7 x 92.7 x 3.8 cm (31 3/4 x 36 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Georges Wildenstein

Accession Number

1960.13.1

Artists / Makers

Anonymous Artist (artist)

Antoine Watteau (artist after) French, 1684 - 1721

Image Use

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Provenance

Camille Groult [1837-1908], Paris, by 1899;[1] probably Groult family until at least 1956.[2] Georges Wildenstein, New York;[3] gift 1960 to NGA.

[1] Mentioned as being in the collection of M. Groult by Emilia Francis Strong Dilke, French Painters of the XVIIIth Century, London, 1899: 87.

[2]Correspondence in NGA curatorial files suggests that the Groult family still owned the painting in 1956. The painting was not included in the 21 March 1952 sale of the Groult collection held in Paris.

[3] In 1997 Wildenstein & Co. was not able to document when Georges Wildenstein acquired the painting, and if it was acquired by him personally or by the firm (letter of 5 November 1997 from Joseph Baillio in NGA curatorial files). NGA's records from the time of the acquisition do not document this information either.

Associated Names

Groult, Camille
Wildenstein & Co., Inc.

Exhibition History

1990: The Mask of Comedy: The Art of Italian Commedia, The J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, 1990, no. 11, repro.

Bibliography

1899: Strong, Emilia Francis [Lady Dilke]. French Painters of the XVIIIth Century. London, 1899: 87.

1977: Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 301, text fig. 93.

2009: Conisbee, Philip, et al. French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2009: 481, repro.