Le quatorze juillet – Bonne fête!
Antoine Watteau, Two Studies of the Head and Shoulders of a Little Girl, ca. 1717 (gift of J. P. Morgan, Jr., 1924)
As noted on the Morgan’s website, this fall the New York library and museum will host an exhibition of over eighty exceptional works on paper in conjunction with Rococo and Revolution: Eighteenth-Century French Drawings. Artists featured will include Antoine Watteau, Jacques-Louis David, François Boucher, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Claude Gillot, Nicolas Lancret, Hubert Robert, Pierre-Paul Prud’hon, Anne-Louis Girodet, and Pierre-Narcisse Guérin.
The exhibition runs from October 2, 2009 until January 3, 2010.
Settecento at Auction
Market Watch
Marieschi, Courtyard of the Doge’s Palace, ca. 1735
As reported by Bruce Millar in The Art Newspaper (9 July 2009), old master paintings are “out-performing the summer’s impressionist, modern and contemporary sales for the first time in several years.”
At Christie’s, eighteenth-century Venice ranked among the top sellers. Courtyard of the Doge’s Palace, by Michele Giovanni Marieschi, ca. 1735, fetched £2,169,250 ($3,512,016) – just above the minimum estimated price of £2,000,000.
Zocchi, View of the Tiber Looking towards the Castel Sant'Angelo and Saint Peter's, mid-eighteenth century
And at Bonhams, View of the Tiber Looking towards the Castel Sant’Angelo, with Saint Peter’s in the Distance, a painting newly attributed to Giuseppe Zocchi (1711-1767) that was estimated at just £150,000-250,00, set a new record for the artist at £1.3m. It had previously been assigned to Locatelli until a sketch by Zocchi matching the painting was discovered.
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