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Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)

  • Exhibitions : Antoine Watteau, the Music Lesson 09/04/2013

    "Your soul is a select landscape / Charmed by masks and bergamasques / Playing lutes and dancing and / Sad beneath their fanciful disguises". The music lesson proposed by the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels through Watteau's art is (...)

    Lire la suite par Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges

  • News Items : Recent Acquisitions at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Valenciennes 03/04/2013

    Since our last article highlighting acquisitions at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Valenciennes, the museum has added several more important works, thanks to both donations and purchases. The Carpeaux holdings have thus expanded with a drawing (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • Art Market : TEFAF, Maastricht 2013 22/03/2013

    The TEFAF in Maastricht, year after year, continues to live up to its reputation as the most important art fair in the world. This is quite obvious for old masters, and even the 20th century (also contemporary art) is very well represented if we (...)

    Lire la suite par Bénédicte Bonnet Saint-Georges and Didier Rykner

  • News Items : Watteau or not Watteau ? 05/03/2013

    The painting to be auctioned at Daguerre, along with Turquin's, at the Hôtel Drouot on 27 February 2013 undeniably raises many questions. Whatever the case, it does provide the occasion to tell an amusing story and discover an intriguing enigma : (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • News Items : The Getty Purchases a Controversial Watteau 16/03/2012

    The Getty Museum has recently purchased as fully acknowledged by Antoine Watteau, a painting previously found in the Paul-Louis Weiller collection which had been auctioned at the Hôtel Drouot on 5 April 2011 at Gros-Delettrez under a cautious (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner

  • News Items : An Auction of Old Master Drawings in Paris 28/11/2011

    On 30 November, the Hôtel Drouot, under the gavel of the Millon auction house, will be featuring the first of four or five public sales offering an important collection of old master drawings. The seller's name has remained anonymous (Monsieur (...)

    Lire la suite par Didier Rykner