Jean-Étienne Liotard
Entretiens amoureaux–Amantium Colloqua (Conversation among lovers), from series L’Oeuvre d’Antoine Watteau Peintre du Roy, from the Recueil Jullienne

Entretiens amoureaux–Amantium Colloqua (Conversation among lovers), from series L’Oeuvre d’Antoine Watteau Peintre du Roy, from the Recueil Jullienne

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Entretiens amoureaux–Amantium Colloqua (Conversation among lovers), from series L’Oeuvre d’Antoine Watteau Peintre du Roy, from the Recueil Jullienne
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Titles
  • Entretiens amoureaux–Amantium Colloqua (Conversation among lovers), from series L’Oeuvre d’Antoine Watteau Peintre du Roy, from the Recueil Jullienne
Date1731
MediumEtching and engraving on 18th-century laid paper, state II/III
DimensionsPlate: 16 × 19 5/16 in. (40.7 × 49 cm)
Sheet: 17 3/16 × 20 11/16 in. (43.7 × 52.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Marjorie G. and Evan C. Horning Print Endowment
Object number2022.247
Not on view

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Object Type
ProvenanceThe artist, 18th century; by descent through the Liotard family; Professor C.B. Tilanus, late 19th century-early 20th century; [possibly his sale, Amsterdam, auction, 1934] [1] ; Societé auxiliare du Musée du Genéve, Geneva Switzerland; [Rodolphe Dunki, Geneva, Switzerland]; Private collection, Geneva, Switzerland; [London, Christie’s, 8 April 2009]; [Susan Schulman Fine Art, Inc., New York, as of 2021-2022]; purchased by MFAH, 2022.

[1] from a group of prints almost certainly sold at auction in Amsterdam in 1934. This collection had descended through the Liotard family to Professor C.B. Tilanus. His sale contained a lot described as a “portfolio with many antique prints,” which was bought by the Societé auxiliare du Musée du Genéve. They extracted seventeen drawings and sold the balance to a local dealer, Rodolphe Dunki. He then sold the group to a collector in Geneva, who sold them at CHRLN 8 April 2009.
Exhibition HistoryNone known.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Inscribed on plate, left bottom edge directly below image: A Watteau pinxit
Recto: Inscribed on plate, right bottom edge directly below image: Liotard Sculp.
Recto: Inscribed on plate, below left center of image: ENTRETIENS AMOUREUX./Graves d’Apres le Tableau original peint par Watteau/de la meme grandeur de l’estampe
Recto: Inscribed on plate, center bottom edge: Tiré du cabinet de McMassé/a Paris Avec Privilege du Roy.
Recto: Inscribed on plate, below right center of image: AMANTIUM COLLOQUIA/Scalpta juxta Exemplar ejusdem magnitudinis/a Watteau depictum
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, left bottom edge: 2310 006
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, bottom right corner: 2[?]7615

None known
Catalogue raisonnéDacier & Vuaflart 124, II/II

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