2017.120.84: The Pleasures of the Ball
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2017.120.84
- People
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Gérard Jean Baptiste Scotin II, French (Paris 1698 - after 1755)
After Jean-Antoine Watteau, French (Valenciennes 1684 - 1721 Nogent-sur-Marne)
- Title
- The Pleasures of the Ball
- Other Titles
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Original Language Title: Les Plaisirs du bal / Chori Delicæ
Series/Book Title: Recueil Jullienne - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 18th century
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/359141
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Engraving and etching
- Dimensions
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sheet: 62.7 × 88.8 cm (24 11/16 × 34 15/16 in.)
plate: 55.1 × 68 cm (21 11/16 × 26 3/4 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: in plate, lower margin, left: A Watteau pinxit
- inscription: in plate, lower margin, right: Scotin Sculp.
- inscription: in plate, lower margin, left and right: LES PLAISIRS SU BAL / Gravés d'Aprés le Tableau original peint par Watteau / de la même grandeur de l'estampe. // CHORI DELICIAE. / Scalptae juxta Exemplar ejusdem magnitudinis / à Watteavo depictum.
- inscription: in plate, lower margin, centered: De tableau est dans le Cabinet de Mr. Glueq Conseiler. au Parlement / a Paris chez la Veuve Chereau ruë St. Jacques aux deux pilliers d'Or. A.P.D.R.
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire, by 1884, by descent, sold [through Christie's, London, July 15, 2015, lot 172]; to private collection, United Kingdom, sold [through C. G. Boerner LLC, New York], to; Harvard Art Museums, 2017
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- ii/ii
- Standard Reference Number
- Dacier & Vuaflart 114
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard Norton Memorial Fund
- Accession Year
- 2017
- Object Number
- 2017.120.84
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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