Albert Bellenger and Jean-Antoine Watteau
Section from the Embarquement pour Cythére
1891
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- Artist: Albert Bellenger
- Artist: Jean-Antoine Watteau
Section from the Embarquement pour Cythére
1891
Physical Qualities
Wood engraving, Sheet: 310 x 235 mm. (12 3/16 x 9 1/4 in.)
Image: 142 x 150 mm. (5 9/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.48.16683
Detail from the painting "Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera" by Jean-Antoine Watteau, French, 1684-1721. One of a group of proofs by Bellenger in the Lucas Collection, which were published as illustrations, frequently for works written by Theodore Child. This one appeared in Theodore Child, "A Mirror of Fair Women: XXX. Watteau's Coquettes," Harper's Bazar, Vol. XXV, No. 25, June 18, 1892, p. 493.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art, through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
Inscribed: Signed in block: lower right "A BELLENGER"
