La Peinture

Follower of Jean-Antoine Watteau Le Peinture oil on canvas, unframed 41 x 33 cm.; 16 x 13 in. An engraving by Louis Desplaces (16821739) indicates that this painting is a copy after a work by Watteau with some minor variations to the background.1 The original painting (location unknown) was a pendant to La Sculpture, c. 1710, now in Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans.2 1 See for example the impression in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, no. 2012.136.249. 2 P. Rosenberg and E. Camesasca, Tou

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