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An elegant company seated on a staircase in a park with dogs playing in the foreground
Details
Jacques de Lajoüe (Paris 1686-1761)
An elegant company seated on a staircase in a park with dogs playing in the foreground
signed 'LAOÜE' (lower center)
oil on canvas
20¼ x 30¼in. (51.4 x 77cm.)
An elegant company seated on a staircase in a park with dogs playing in the foreground
signed 'LAOÜE' (lower center)
oil on canvas
20¼ x 30¼in. (51.4 x 77cm.)
Provenance
Mrs. Riant, circa 1860.
Mrs. La Béraudière; (+) sale, Chevallier, Paris, 15-6 May 1885, lot 32 (to Féral).
with Galerie Cailleux, Paris (Watteau et sa génération, 1968, no. 85; and (also Geneva) Des Monts et des Eaux, paysages de Watteau à Vernet, 1980-1, no. 14).
Mrs. La Béraudière; (+) sale, Chevallier, Paris, 15-6 May 1885, lot 32 (to Féral).
with Galerie Cailleux, Paris (Watteau et sa génération, 1968, no. 85; and (also Geneva) Des Monts et des Eaux, paysages de Watteau à Vernet, 1980-1, no. 14).
Literature
M. Roland Michel, Lajoue et l'Art Rocaille, Paris, 1984, p. 202, no. P93, pl. 5 and fig. 102.
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Plaisirs de France, 1951, no. 101.
London, Royal Academy, European Masters of the XVIIIth century, 1954-5, no. 171.
Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts, L'Art français au temps de Stanislas, 1955, no. 7, illustrated.
Zürich Kunsthaus, Schönheit des 18 jahrhunderts, 1955, no. 167, pl. 6.
Paris, École des Beaux-Arts, L'art français au XVIIIème siècle, 1965, no. 49, illustrated.
London, Royal Academy, European Masters of the XVIIIth century, 1954-5, no. 171.
Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts, L'Art français au temps de Stanislas, 1955, no. 7, illustrated.
Zürich Kunsthaus, Schönheit des 18 jahrhunderts, 1955, no. 167, pl. 6.
Paris, École des Beaux-Arts, L'art français au XVIIIème siècle, 1965, no. 49, illustrated.