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Group of Eighteen Landscapes with Animals and Figures (folding screen)

Screen
ca.1725- ca.1750 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Watteau, Jean-Antoine (painter)
Place of origin
England (made)

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.


Object details

Categories
Furniture
Interiors
Leather
Object type
Screen
TitleGroup of Eighteen Landscapes with Animals and Figures (folding screen) (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Oil on gilt leather
Oil
Leather
Gilding
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.
Dimensions
  • Height: 183cm
  • Each leaf width: 54cm
  • Each panel width: 21.5in
Original measurements recorded: H 6 ft, w. each fold 1 ft 9 1/2 in.
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).
Subjects depicted
Figures
Animals
Bibliographic references
  • Koldeweij, Eloy F. 'Gilt Leather as an Upholstery Material', in Riggisberger Berichte, no. 17, Furnishing Textiles. Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Interior Decoration', published by the Abeff Stiftung, 2009, pp. 179-236, fig. 109. p. 182
  • Woodbury Adams, Janet. Decorative folding screens in the West from 1600 to the present day. London: Thames & Hudson, 1982, page 79
Collection
Furniture and Woodwork Collection
Accession number
448-1865

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Record createdJuly 14, 2007
Record URL
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