Artwork Details
Artist
Creation Date
Materials
Object Types
Dimensions
19-1/2 x 23-5/8 in. (canvas) 27-3/4 x 32 x 4-1/4 in. (framed/Optium)
Accession Number
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Herman C. Krannert
Copyright
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture Before 1800
Color Palette
Provenance
Private collection, southern France {1} (Wildenstein & Co., New York);{2} Purchased by (Max Safron Galleries, New York);{3} Purchased by Josiah K. Lilly Jr. [1893-1966], Indianapolis, in 1961;{4} Mrs. Herman C. Krannert [1890-1974]; Given to the Indianapolis Museum of Art, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1974 (74.98). ------- {1} See Anthony F. Janson and A. Ian Fraser, 100 Masterpieces of Painting: Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 1980, p. 127. {2} See letter from Louis Goldenberg of Wildenstein & Co. to George D. McKee dated 26 August 1976 in IMA Historical File (74.98). {3} See Richard Rand, Intimate Encounters: Love and Domesticity in Eighteenth-Century France, Princeton 1997, catalogue no. 1. {4} See footnote 3 above.
Gallery Labels
In this, his earliest known painting, Watteau draws inspiration from scenes of fairs, peasant weddings, and country dances by Flemish painters like Peter Paul Rubens and David Teniers. Compared to their Flemish forebears, however, Watteau's dancing villagers are more civilized and courtly. Rustic music, which frequently accompanies drunkenness and debauchery in Flemish art, here alludes to the natural harmony of social and familial order.
The increasing popularity in 18th-century France of novels and plays with rural themes also reveals a new appreciation for the imagined harmony and simplicity of country life.
Exhibition History
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Chengdu Museum
September 28, 2020 - January 4, 2021
Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Chengdu Museum
September 29, 2020 - January 4, 2021
Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Hunan Provincial Museum
May 29, 2020 - September 13, 2020
Hunan Provincial Museum
May 29, 2020 - September 13, 2020
Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Guandong Museum
January 10, 2020 - May 17, 2020
Guandong Museum
January 10, 2020 - May 17, 2020
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