Perfect Harmony (painting)
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| L'Accord parfait | |
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| The Perfect Accord | |
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| Artist | Antoine Watteau |
| Year | ca. 1719 |
| Catalogue | H 63 (64); G 97; DV 23; R 118; HA 120; EC 196; F B29; RM 239; RT 106 |
| Medium | oil on panel |
| Dimensions | 35.5 cm × 28 cm (14.0 in × 11 in) |
| Location | Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles |
| Accession | AC1999.18.1 |
The Perfect Accord (L'Accord parfait), also adapted into English as Perfect Harmony, is an oil-on-panel painting by Antoine Watteau, created c. 1719,[1] now held in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It was the pendant to the same artist's The Surprise.
It was initially owned by a friend of the artist, Nicolas Hénin, but it[1] and Surprise were sold separately by his heir around 1756.
Exhibition history[edit]
| Year | Title | Location | Cat. no. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1871 | Old Masters | Royal Academy of Arts, London | 130 | ||||||
| 1891 | Old Masters | Royal Academy of Arts, London | 55 | ||||||
| 1933 | Three French Reigns | Sassoon House, London | 98 | ||||||
| 1954–1955 | European Masters of the Eighteenth Century | Royal Academy of Arts, London | 237 | ||||||
| 1968 | The French Taste in English Painting | Kenwood House, London | 12 | ||||||
| 2004 | Watteau et la fête galante | Musée des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes | 56 | ||||||
| General reference: Eidelberg 2014 | |||||||||
References[edit]
- ^ a b Camesasca, Ettore (1971). The Complete Painting of Watteau (loan required). Classics of the World's Great Art. Introduction by John Sutherland. New York: Harry N. Abrams. p. 122. ISBN 0810955253. OCLC 143069 – via the Internet Archive. Cat. no. 196.
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Further reading[edit]
- Adhémar, Hélène (1950). Watteau; sa vie, son oeuvre (in French). Includes "L’univers de Watteau", an introduction by René Huyghe. Paris: P. Tisné. cat. no. 120. OCLC 853537.
- Bourcaud, Gustave (1893). Dessins, gouaches, estampes et tableaux du XVIIIe siècle : guide de l'amateur. Paris: D. Morgand. p. 532 – via the Internet Archive.
- Dacier, Émile; Vuaflart, Albert (1922). Jean de Julienne et les graveurs de Watteau au XVIII-e siècle. III. Catalogue (in French). Paris: M. Rousseau. cat. no. 23. doi:10.11588/DIGLIT.41977. OCLC 1039156495.
- Ferré, Jean, ed. (1972). Watteau (in French). Vol. 1. Madrid: Éditions Athena. cat. no. B29. OCLC 906101135.
- Glorieux, Guillaume (2011). Watteau. Collection Les Phares (in French). Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod. p. 162. ISBN 9782850883408. OCLC 711039378.
- Goncourt, Edmond de (1875). Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé d'Antoine Watteau (in French). Paris: Rapilly. p. 95–96, cat. no. 97. OCLC 1041772738 – via the Internet Archive.
- Hédouin, P. [in French] (November 30, 1845). "Watteau: catalogue de son oeuvre". L'Artiste (in French). pp. 78–80 – via Gallica. p. 79, cat. no. 63
{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - Hédouin, P. (1856). Mosaïque. Peintres, musiciens, littérateurs, artistes dramatiques à partir du 15e siècle jusqu'à nos jours (in French). Paris: Heugel. p. 100, cat. no. 64. OCLC 1157159285 – via the Internet Archive.
- Herold, Jacques; Vuaflart, Albert (1929). Jean de Julienne et les graveurs de Watteau au XVIII-e siècle. I. Notices et documents biographiques (in French). Paris: M. Rousseau. p. 98. OCLC 1039157338.
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2003). Los Angeles County Museum of Art: With 197 Illustrations, 184 in Color. London: Thames & Hudson. p. 108. ISBN 0-500-20360-1 – via the Internet Archive.
- Mathey, Jacques (1959). Antoine Watteau. Peintures réapparues inconnues ou négligées par les historiens (in French). Paris: F. de Nobele. p. 69. OCLC 954214682.
- Ramade, Patrick & Eidelberg, Martin P. (2004). Watteau et la fête galante: Musée des beaux-arts de Valenciennes, 5 mars-14 juin 2004 (in French). Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux. cat. no. 56. ISBN 9782711846771. OCLC 492866933.
- 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. 40, cat. no. 118. OCLC 564527521.
- Roland Michel, Marianne. Watteau: Tutti I Dipinti. I Maestri (in Italian). Vol. 19. Translated from the French by Marina Anzil Robertini. Milano: Rizzoli. cat. no. 239. OCLC 48636176. OCLC 801077589. Published in French as Tout Watteau. La Peinture. Paris: Flammarion. 1982. ISBN 2-08-012226-6. OCLC 490060827.
- Roland Michel, Marianne (1984). Watteau (in French). Paris: Flammarion. pp. 55, 266, 287. ISBN 9782080120205. OCLC 417153549.
- Temperini, Renaud (2002). Watteau. Maîtres de l'art (in French). Paris: Gallimard. cat. no. 106. ISBN 9782070116867. OCLC 300225840.
- Zimmermann, E. Heinrich [in German] (1912). Watteau: des Meisters Werke in 182 Abbildungen. Klassiker der Kunst (in German). Vol. 21. Stuttgart, Leipzig: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. pp. 23, 186. OCLC 561124140.
External links[edit]
- The Perfect Accord at the LACMA's official web site
- Eidelberg, Martin (March 2014). "L'Accord parfait". A Watteau Abecedario. Archived from the original on April 3, 2020. Retrieved October 17, 2020.
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