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Allegory of Spring, or the Young Gardeners
Jean Antoine WatteauLinkedCulture matchlcp-319ad702b014
- Date
- n.d.
- Medium
- Red chalk on buff laid paper, laid down on white laid paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 84279
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- Credit line
- Gift of Margaret Day Blake
- Provenance
- Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 23, 1899, lot 93. Léon Michel-Lévy (1846-1925), Paris; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 17-18, 1925, lot 118 to Jules Strauss (1861-1943), Paris [annotated sales catalogue]; sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, May 27, 1949, lot 5 (as by Claude Gillot). Sold by Otto Wertheimer (1878-1972), Paris, to the Art Institute, 1955.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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