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Jean-Antoine Watteau: Quadrille (La Contredanse)  wikidata:Q20201556 reasonator:Q20201556
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Jean-Antoine Watteau  (1684–1721)  wikidata:Q183221 s:en:Author:Jean-Antoine Watteau q:it:Antoine Watteau
 
Jean-Antoine Watteau
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Description French painter, graphic artist, drawer, artist, printmaker and architectural draftsperson
Date of birth/death 10 October 1684 Edit this at Wikidata 18 July 1721 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Valenciennes Nogent-sur-Marne
Work period 1700 Edit this at Wikidata–1721 Edit this at Wikidata
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date QS:P,+1702-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1702-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
), Valenciennes (1709-1710), London (1719-1720)
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Title
Quadrille (La Contredanse)
label QS:Len,"Quadrille (La Contredanse)"
label QS:Lfr,"La Contre-Danse"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre pastoral Edit this at Wikidata
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Identifier: catalogueofpictu00nati (find matches)
Title: A catalogue of the pictures and drawings in the National loan exhibition, in aid of National gallery funds, held in the Grafton Galleries, London (1909-1910)
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: National Loan Exhibition (1909-1910 : London, England) Cook, Herbert Frederick, Sir, 1868-1939 Brockwell, Maurice Walter, 1869-1958 Grafton Galleries (London, England)
Subjects: Art
Publisher: London : W. Heinemann
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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lefta figure issues from a tent. On the right are four figures, a farmcart full of straw, the shafts being on the ground, and an inn. Wood. 9I in. X 13 in. (0.241 x 0.33). Formerly in the Collection of Mr. T. Humphry Ward. Sketchilypainted. From the Collection of the late M. Rodolphe Kann.Catalogue of the Rodolphe Kann Collection, 1907, vol. ii. p. 69.Not previously exhibited.Lent by Messrs. Duveen. 9 14WATTEAU: 1684-1721 French SchoolLA CONTRE-DANSE A WOODLAND glade opening on to a peep of distant landscape.In the centre of the composition a lady, attired in a shim-mering white dress with a rich blue mantle across her left shoulder,is dancing with her partner to the music of two musicians seatedin the foreground to the left. On the grass under a tree on theright, three brilliantly costumed ladies and as many gallants areflirting. Canvas, i 8 in. x 21^ in. (0.457 x 0.546). Sold at Christies, June 10, 1907, No. 74. Engraved by Brion. Not previously exhibited. Lent by Sir Hugh Lane. 20
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15SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A.: 1723-1792 Eriglish School JOHN DUNNING (First Lord Ashburton) AND HIS SISTER HE is seated to the left at a table, on which are writingmaterials ; he wears a wig and the robes of the Chancellorof the Duchy of Lancaster. Miss Dunning, wearing a white dresswith black lace shawl, is seated to the right. Three-quarter-lengthfigures looking inwards. After his court-martial and acquittal in 1779, Admiral Keppel presentedbank-notes for ^^1000 to Lee, Dunning, and Erskine for their professionalassistance. Lee and Dunning returned the money. Erskine, who had beencalled to the Bar in Trinity Term 1778, and who had a wife and eight childrendepending on him, was still too poor to follow their example.—C. R. Leslieand Tom Taylor, Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1865, vol. ii. p. 234. Formerly in the Collection of Lady Cranstoun ; in 1899 in the Collectionof Comte B. de Castellane ; and subsequently in that of Mr. C. J. Wertheimcr. Canvas. 50J- in. x 73 in. (1

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Date 1909
date QS:P571,+1909-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
institution QS:P195,Q1416890
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2000.153 (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco) Edit this at Wikidata
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