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Provenance: Bernis-Calvière, Château de Vézénobres (descendants of La Roque), Lévy de Strasbourg Exhibited: Brussels, Exposition international de cing siècles d’art, May 24-October 13,1935, no.978 New York, Widenstein, French Eighteenth Century Painters, November16-December 11, 1954, no.31 Stockholm, National Museum, La Douce France, August 7-October 11, 1964, no.4 Reproduced Johannesburg, Art Gallery, Three Centuries of French Painting: François I-Napoleon, I, March-April, 1974, no number, Reproduces. Exhibition traveled to Cape Town, South African National Gallery, April-May 1974 Atlanta, High Museum of Art , The Rococo Age: French Masterpieces of the Eighteenth Century (cat. by E. Zafran),October 15-December 31, 1983, no.23; also cited in introductory essay, p.14. Reproduced (color) 「１８世紀珠玉のフランス絵画展」、東京富士美術館、1988

Literature: L. Clément de Ris, Les Amateurs d’autrefois, Paris, 1877, pp.224-225 E. and J. de Goncourt, L’Art du dix-huitième siècle, Paris, 1880, p.55 C. Martine, “Le Musée de la Fère et Watteau ”L’Art et les Artistes, 1921, p.260 E.Dacier and A. Vuaflart, Jean de Jullienne et les gravers de Watteau du ⅩⅤⅢe siècle, Paris, 1922, Ⅰ, pp.34, 122 ; Ⅱ, pl.97 ; Ⅲ, p.113, note 269. Engraving reproduced Ⅳ, pl.269 Paris, Musée Carnavalet, Catalogue de l’exposition des chefs-d’ œuvre des Musées de Province, 1933, p.44 P. Fierens, “Cinq siècles d’art à l’exposition Bruxelles,” L’Art et les Artistes, no.158, June 1935, reproduced p.315 P. Lambotte, Catalogue de l’exposition internationale de cinq siècles d’art, Brussels, 1935, no.978 H. Adhémar and R. Huyghe, Watteau, sa vie-son œuvre,Paris, 1950, pp.56, note 39 ; 85 ; 118 ; 129, no.148 J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau : peintures, Paris, 1959, pp.48 ; 67 ;78 ;, no.119. Reproduced fig.119 J. Cailleux, “L’Art du dix-huitième siècle,” Burlington Magazine, (Supplemet), CⅥ, no.731, February 1964, pp.ⅰ-ⅲ. Reproduced fig.3 G.Macchia and E.C. Montagni, L’Opera completa di Watteau, Milan, 1968, p.106, cited Under no.118 J.Ferré et al., Watteau, Madrid, 1973, Ⅳ, p.1033, no.B77.Engraving reproduced Ⅱ, no.967 ; Ⅳ, p.1033 J.Cailleux, “The Literature of Art: A Strange Monument and Other Watteau Studies,” Burlington Magazine, CⅩⅦ, no.865, April 1975, p.247, cited under note 22 B. Hercenberg, Nicolas Vleughels, Paris, 1975, p.86, cited under no.87 A.P. de Mirimonde, L’Iconographie musicale sous les rois Bourbons. La musique dans les arts plastiques (ⅩⅦ-ⅩⅧe siècles), Ⅱ, Paris, 1977, p.75 and note 112 New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, European Drawings from the Fitzwilliam, December 15, 1976-February 13, 1977,p.76, cited under no.122 D. Posner, Antoine Watteau, Ithaca, N.Y., 1984, pp.255 ; 290, notes 44 bis. 45, and 46 (as datable to ca.1719). Reproduced p.253, fig.184 (engraving by F.P. Lépicié) J.Baillio, “French Rococo Painting : A Notable Exhibition in Atlanta,” Apollo, CⅩⅨ, no.253, January 1984, pp.16-17. Reproduced p.16, fig.1 J. Baillio, “Atlanta, l’ âge rococo,”L’ Œil, nos.342-343, January-Februry 1984, p.90 Washinfton, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, Watteau, 1984, pp.40 ; 191, cited under no.D113 (entry by M. Morgan Grasselli ) ; 428, cited under no.P67 (entry by P.Rosenberg). Reproduced pp.39 (detail of painting) ; 191, fig.1 (Lépicié engraving) ; 426, fig.4 (Lépicié engraving) M. Roland Michel, Watteau, un artiste au ⅩⅧe siècle, London and Paris, 1984, pp.56, 67, note 11 ; 151 ; 155 ; 236, note 2 ; 265. Reproduced p.156, fig.139 H. Preston “Facets of French Art: An English Private Collection, ”Apollo, CⅩⅪ, no.275, January 1985, p.47, cited under note 4 「１８世紀珠玉のフランス絵画展」カタログ、no.7、東京富士美術館、1988