Group of Eighteen Landscapes with Animals and Figures (folding screen)
Screen
ca.1725- ca.1750 (painted)
ca.1725- ca.1750 (painted)
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Six-folded gilt leather screen, with three pastoral scenes on each fold. These pastoral-scenes, which are very alike the subjects by Watteau or Lancret, show country-scenes with farmers, milkmaids, cows and sheep, even as scenes with elegant and love-making couples, sometimes accompanied by a pierot-figure. The back of the screen has been painted black with a flower ornamentation in green and red within a gilded line. The gilded parts have been punched with several different stamps. The punched edging-strips are probably original.
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Title | Group of Eighteen Landscapes with Animals and Figures (folding screen) (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Oil on gilt leather |
Brief description | Six-folded gilt leather screen with three pastoral scenes on each panel, including figures with animals, painted in the style of Jean-Antoine Watteau, probably English, ca. 1725- ca. 1750. |
Physical description | Six-folded gilt leather screen, with three pastoral scenes on each fold. These pastoral-scenes, which are very alike the subjects by Watteau or Lancret, show country-scenes with farmers, milkmaids, cows and sheep, even as scenes with elegant and love-making couples, sometimes accompanied by a pierot-figure. The back of the screen has been painted black with a flower ornamentation in green and red within a gilded line. The gilded parts have been punched with several different stamps. The punched edging-strips are probably original. |
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Object history | Various similar screens are known to exist, amongst other places there is a 4-folded one in the collection of the Preservation Trust in Bath (Royal Crescent no.1). |
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Accession number | 448-1865 |
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Record created | July 14, 2007 |
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