The Embarrassing Proposal
| The Embarrassing Proposal | |
|---|---|
Jean-Antoine Watteau | |
| Year | ca. 1715–1716 |
| Catalogue | H 130 (132); G 158; DV 274; R 129; HA 142; EC 146; RM 189 |
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 65 cm × 84.5 cm (26 in × 33.3 in) |
| Location | The Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
| Accession | ГЭ-1150 |
The Embarrassing Proposal is a 1715-1716 painting by
Catherine II of Russia for the Hermitage Museum, in Saint Petersburg
, where it still hangs.
It shows a landscape with three young women and two young gallants. X-ray examination has shown the canvas was previously used for a composition with four people, including a woman playing a guitar and a young man, in the position now occupied by the three seated figures.
Exhibition history
| Year | Title | Location | Cat. no. | References | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary | Secondary | ||||||||
| 1955 | An Exhibition of French Art of the 15th-20th Centuries | Pushkin Museum, Moscow | * | [1] | [2] | ||||
| 1956 | An Exhibition of French Art of the 12th-20th Centuries | Hermitage Museum, Leningrad | * | [3] | |||||
| 1972 | Watteau and His Time | Hermitage Museum, Leningrad | 4 | [4] | |||||
| 1984–1985 | Watteau 1684–1721 | Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin
|
P. 39 | [5] | |||||
| 1988 | French Paintings from the USSR | National Gallery, London | 2 | [2] | |||||
| 2005–2006 | Russia! | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City | 44 | [6] | |||||
| "*" denotes an unnumbered entry. | |||||||||
References
- ^ Antonova, I. A.; Berezina, V. N.; Borovaya, T. A.; et al. (1955). Выставка французского искусства XV-XX вв. Каталог (in Russian). With introduction by V. Prokofiev. Moscow: Iskusstvo. p. 24.
- ^ OCLC 1035139931– via the Internet Archive.
- ^ The Hermitage Museum, Leningrad (1956). Выставка французского искусства XII-XX вв. (1956; Ленинград). Каталог (in Russian). Moscow: Iskusstvo. p. 12.
- OCLC 990348938.
- ^ Grasselli, Rosenberg & Parmantier 1984, pp. 340–341.
- OCLC 607728025– via the Internet Archive.
Bibliography
- Adhemar, Helene (1950). Watteau; sa vie, son oeuvre (in French). Includes "L’univers de Watteau", an introduction by )
- Camesasca, Ettore, ed. (1971). The Complete Paintings of Watteau (loan required). Classics of the World's Great Art. Introduction by John Sunderland. New York: Harry N. Abrams. p. 112. )
- Descargues, Pierre (1961). The Hermitage Museum, Leningrad. New York: Harry N. Abrams. pp. 31, 170. OCLC 829900432.
- OCLC 1041772738– via the Internet Archive.
- Grasselli, Margaret Morgan; OCLC 557740787– via the National Gallery of Art archive.
- Hédouin, Pierre [in French] (November 30, 1845). "Watteau: catalogue de son oeuvre". L'Artiste (in French). pp. 78–80 – via Gallica.
{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) (p. 80, cat. no. 130.) - Hédouin, Pierre (1856). Mosaïque. Peintres, musiciens, littérateurs, artistes dramatiques à partir du 15e siècle jusqu'à nos jours. Paris: Heugel. p. 107, cat. no. 132. OCLC 1157159285– via the Internet Archive.
- Hildebrandt, Edmund (1923). Antoine Watteau (in German). Berlin: Propyläen-Verlag. p. 167, pl. 46. OCLC 1039987046– via the Internet Archive.
- Mathey, Jacques (1959). Antoine Watteau. Peintures réapparues inconnues ou négligées par les historiens (in French). Paris: F. de Nobele. p. 68.
- OCLC 67871342.
- Nemilova, I. S. (1971). "К вопросу о творческом процессе Антуана Ватто (On the Question of Watteau's Creative Process)". In Libman M. Y.; et al. (eds.). Искусство Запада [Western Art] (in Russian). Moscow: OCLC 707104089.
- Nemilova, I. S. (1982). Французская живопись XVIII века в Эрмитаже (La peinture française du XVIIIe siècle, Musée de L'Ermitage: catalogue raisonné) [French Painting of the 18th centrty in the Hermitage Museum: Scientific Catalogue]. Leningrad: Iskusstvo. pp. 139–140.
- Nemilova, I. S. (1985). Французская живопись XVIII века [French Painting of the 18th Century]. Государственный Эрмитаж. Собрание живописи (in Russian). Moscow: Izobrazitel'noe iskusstvo. p. 243. OCLC 878889718.
- Nemilova, I. S. (1989) [first published in 1973]. Загадки старых картин [Enigmas of Old Masters] (in Russian) (3rd ed.). Moscow: Izobrazitel'noe iskusstvo. OCLC 909190011.
- OCLC 10736607.
- Réau, Louis (1928–1930). "Watteau". In Dimier, Louis (ed.). Les peintres français du XVIII-e siècle: Histoire des vies et catalogue des œuvres (in French). Vol. 1. Paris: G. Van Oest. p. 41, cat. no. 129. OCLC 564527521.
- Roland Michel, Marianne (1980). Antoine Watteau: das Gesamtwerk (in German). Translated from the French by Rudolf Kimmig. Frankfurt: Ullstein. pp. 66, 68, cat. no. 189. OCLC 69202887.
- Somof, A. [in Russian] (1903). Ermitage imperial. Catalogue de la Galerie des tableaux. Troisième partie: école anglaise et ècole française. St. Petersburg: La Companie d'Imprimerie artistique. p. 107, cat. no. 1501 – via the Internet Archive.
- OCLC 598217.
- OCLC 741513217– via the Internet Archive.
- Zimmermann, E. Heinrich (1912). Watteau: des Meisters Werke in 182 Abbildungen. Klassiker der Kunst (in German). Vol. 21. Stuttgart, Leipzig: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. pp. 13, 185–186.
- Zolotov, Y. K. [in Russian], ed. (1973). Антуан Ватто [Antoine Watteau: a reproductions album] (альбом репродукций) (in Russian). Leningrad: Aurora. pp. 143–144.
External links
- An Embarrassing Proposal at the Hermitage's official website
- An Embarrassing Proposal at the Web Gallery of Art
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