ID 887467
Lot 141 | ANTOINE WATTEAU (VALENCIENNES 1684-1721 NOGENTE-SUR-MARNE)
Estimate value
$ 2 500 000 – 3 500 000
Le Pèlerinage a l’Ile de Cythère
oil on canvas
38 1/8 x 45 5/8 in. (97 x 116 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Paris, 13 May 1765, lot 177, as 'Un Tableau représentant le départ pour l’Isle de Cythère, peint par Vateau' (unsold).
Anonymous sales; Paris, 2 December 1765, lot 247, as 'Un Tableau représentant le départ des Pèlerins pour l’Isle de Cythère, peint par Watteau, sur toile, de 4 pieds de large, sur 3 pieds de haut, dans sa bordure dorée'.
Antoine Joseph d’Eslacs du Bouquet, marquis d’Arcambal (1727-1789), Paris; his sale, Paillet, Paris, 22 February 1776, lot 83, as 'Un Paysage chaud de couleur, & saisi à l’effet du Soleil couchant: sur un terrain élevé se voient les ruines d’un Temple, & plus loin, dans le fond, un Village entouré de montagnes, & bordé d’une rivière; & sur le devant, quelques Figures de Pèlerins se tenant sous les bras, & prêts à passer un chemins de roches : hauteur trente-six pouces, largeur quarante-huit. T[oile]' (364 livres).
Charles Jean Goury, marquis de Champgrand (1732-1799), Paris; his sale, Paillet, Paris, 21 March 1787, lot 203, as 'PAR LE MEME [Antoine Watteau].Grand paysage de fête champêtre terminé dans le fonds par une vue de rivière; sur le devant sont différent personnages sous des costumes de pèlerins; le ton de l’ensemble en est chaud, & annonce une soirée d’été. Hauteur 36 pouces, largeur 42 pouces T[oile]' (605 livres).
(Possibly) Anonymous sale; Paris, 28 March 1831, lot 94 as 'Esquisse Voyage à Cythère, … considérée comme la première pensée du maître'.
(Possibly), Leullier sale; Paris, 20 January 1834, lot 111, as 'esquisse'.
(Possibly) Baronosky sale; 28 August 1855, lot 78 as 'jolie composition entièrement différente de celle du musée de Paris'.
Ernest Gimpel (1858-1907), and his wife Adele Vuitton, by whom sold before 1905 to,
Ernest Cronier, Paris; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 5 December 1905, lot 5, as, 'Ecole Française – ‘La Promenade galante’, Dans le soir qui descend, des personnages en costumes de mezzetins, et des femmes en bergères Louis XV, achèvent une journée de plaisir passée dans un paysage d’imaginaire enchantement', where acquired by,
François Kleinberger (c. 1858-1936) and Edouard Warneck (1834-1924), by whom sold on 3 December 1921 for 25,000 FF to,
Georges Wildenstein (1892-1963), Paris.
Confiscated from the above when stored in vault 6, Banque de France, Paris, by the Devisenschutzkommandos.
Custody transferred to the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg at the Jeu de Paume, ERR no. W126, 30 October 1940.
Recovered by the Monuments, Fine Art and Archives Section from the 'Large Peter' salt mines, Alt Aussee, Austria, no. 220/6.
Transferred to the Central Collecting Point, Munich, no. 220/6, 20 June 1945.
Repatriated to France, 31 July 1946.
Restituted to the Wildenstein collection, Paris.
(Possibly) sold by Wildenstein, with the assistance of J.L Souffrice (Galerie Voltaire) in 1973.
Private collection, France.
Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 6 June 2018, lot 243, as 'Ecole Française du XVIIIe siècle, entourage d’Antoine WATTEAU', where acquired by the following,
Art market, London, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
E. de Goncourt, Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé d’Antoine Watteau, Paris, 1875, pp. 158-159, 286, 315, no. 746, note 593.
American Art News, December 1905, IV, no. 11, p. 5.
The Collector and Art Critic, New York, February 1906, IV, no. 4, p. 122.
E. Dacier, A. Vuafflart and J. Hérold, Jean de Jullienne et les graveurs de Watteau, III, Paris, 1922, pp. 61 and 76-77, notes 110 and 155 (citing the 1765 and 1776 sales in which the painting appeared).
P. Rosenberg and M. Morgan Grasselli, Watteau 1684-1721, exhibition catalogue, Washington, Paris and Berlin in 1984-1985, under cat. P61, p. 401, 'Related Paintings' (citing 13 May 1765 auction sale).
M. Eidelberg, A Watteau Abecedario, an online website, as 'Le Départ des pèlerins pour l’isle de Cythère', (entered May 2021; revised October 2021), listed under 'Rejected and Doubtful Attributions'.
Exhibited
Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, An Exhibition of French Art of the XVIII Century, 4 January-3 February 1924, no. 22.
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| Artist: | Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684 - 1721) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe, Paris |
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| Artist: | Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684 - 1721) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
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