La Peinture (Painting)
Louis Desplaces, French, 1682 - 1739
after Jean-Antoine Watteau, French, 1684 - 1721
about 1726-1731
Etching and engraving on paper
Image: 9 1/2 × 6 7/16 in. (24.1 × 16.3 cm)
Mount: 11 13/16 × 8 9/16 in. (30 × 21.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through a gift from Jane and W. David Dance, Class of 1940
PR.2004.8.3
Portfolio / Series Title
Plate 170 from 'Œuvre d'Antoine Watteau, peintre du Roy (The Works of Antoine Watteau), also known as the Recueil Jullienne
Publisher
Gaspard Duchange, Paris
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Watteau Pinxit.; inscribed, in plate, lower center: LA PEINTURE. / Telle doit au Pinceau ce qu'elle à de renom, / Qui fait horreur à voir sans fard, & sous le linge: / Et pour peindre à son gré mainte laide Guenon, / Il faut être adroite comme un Singe. / AParis [AP in ligature] chez Duchange Graveur du Roy rue S.t [t in superscript] Jacques.; inscribed, in plate, lower right: Desplaces Sculp. [Translated text: "It is to the Brush that she owes her renown / she who is repelling without makeup and beneath the sheets / and to paint this very ugly monkey willingly, / one must be as skilled as a monkey"]
Course History
ANTH 12.4, Your Inner Chimpanzee, Kes Schroer, Spring 2014
ANTH 12.4, Your Inner Chimpanzee, Kes Schroer, Spring 2014
ANTH 12.4, Your Inner Chimpanzee, Kes Schroer, Winter 2015
ANTH 12.4, Your Inner Chimpanzee, Kes Schroer, Winter 2015
Provenance
Leo Steinberg, New York; sold to present collection, 2004.
Catalogue Raisonne
Goncourt (1875): 20; Dacier & Vuaflart (1921-29): 168
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