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拍品專文
The painted reserves on this delicate cabinet are directly inspired by the ftes galantes scenes by Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) and Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743). Of the doors on the front, one depicts a dancing couple from La contredanse, taken from an engraving by E. Brion after a painting by Watteau of circa 1715 (reproduced in P. Rosenberg and L-A. Prat, Antoine Watteau 1684-1721: Catalogue raisonn des dessins, vol. I, Milan, 1996, p. 526, no. 328), while the second panel on the front depicts another dancing couple from Le plaisir pastoral by N.H. Tardieu after Watteau's painting of the same name (now in the Musee Cond, Chantilly) of circa 1713. These two figures also appear in the same position in a painting entitled Les Bergers (now at the Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, reproduced in ibid, p. 190, no. 120).
Finally, the right side of the cabinet displays a couple feeding birds taken from an engraving L'Et from a series of the Four Seasons by Tardieu engraved before 1730 after the set of paintings by Lancret executed for M. Leriget de La Faye (reproduced in G. Wildenstein, Lancret, Paris, 1924, no. 16, fig. 15). The left side of the cabinet depicts an amorous couple standing by a fountain after an engraving entitled 'Le Printems' from the same series (illustrated in ibid, no. 15, fig. 14). Though it has not been possible to identify the two scenes on the back and top, they were most probably also inspired by engravings of Lancret.
Finally, the right side of the cabinet displays a couple feeding birds taken from an engraving L'Et from a series of the Four Seasons by Tardieu engraved before 1730 after the set of paintings by Lancret executed for M. Leriget de La Faye (reproduced in G. Wildenstein, Lancret, Paris, 1924, no. 16, fig. 15). The left side of the cabinet depicts an amorous couple standing by a fountain after an engraving entitled 'Le Printems' from the same series (illustrated in ibid, no. 15, fig. 14). Though it has not been possible to identify the two scenes on the back and top, they were most probably also inspired by engravings of Lancret.