Louis Joseph WATTEAU of LILLE
(Valenciennes 1731 - Lille 1798)
The parade of the charlatan
Panel, plate added at the top
29 x 25 cm
Provenance:
Anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, December 14, 1908, no. 90, (with its counterpart no. 89, La chanson à boire), (Me Baudoin).
Bibliography:
G. Maes, Les Watteau de Lille, Paris, 1998, n° LP 186.
This composition is known by a large replica, 265 x 169 cm, part of a set of five paintings (see G. Maes, Op. Cite supra, n° LP 187 to LP 191, reproduced), This series, dated 1782, belonged to the Lenglart collection, in Lille.
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