| La Boudeuse | |
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| Artist | Antoine Watteau |
| Year | Between 1715 and 1718 See § Dating |
| Catalogue | G 114; DV 303; R 101; HA 220; EC 116; F B24; RM 163; RT 44 |
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 42 cm × 34 cm (17 in × 13 in) |
| Location | Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg |
| Accession | ГЭ-4120 |
La Boudeuse is the modern title[a] given to an oil on canvas painting in the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, by the French Rococo painter Antoine Watteau (1684–1721). Completed in the late 1710s, La Boudeuse depicts a young couple set amidst a park in the foreground, in a rare example of the two-figure landscape composition which is considered one of the best fêtes galantes in Watteau's later work. However, the picture's authenticity was also a subject of scholarly debate, for it had been engraved by English painter Philippe Mercier, once a follower of Watteau, and was not included in Jean de Jullienne's edition of Watteau's work published in the 1730s.
Since the mid-18th century, La Boudeuse was among collections formed by the British statesman Robert Walpole, and later by his son, the writer Horace Walpole; until the sale of 1842, it was located in Horace Walpole's estate, Strawberry Hill House. Following a number of sales in the middle of the 19th century, the painting came into possession of prominent Russian art collector, Count Pavel Stroganov; after the Revolution of 1917, La Boudeuse was transferred into the Hermitage Museum, where it remains.
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- ^ Eidelberg 1969, p. 276 n. 17; Grasselli, Rosenberg & Parmantier 1984, p. 355; Raymond 2013, p. 63; Hermitage Museum 2019, p. 142.
- ^ Volskaya 1933, p. 27.
- ^ Belova 2008, p. 27; Belova 2010, p. 145; Hermitage Museum 2019, p. 142.
- ^ Wescher, Paul (Autumn 1951). "Philippe Mercier and the French Artists in London". Art Quarterly. 14: 179–194 – via the Internet Archive.
- ^ Grasselli, Rosenberg & Parmantier 1984, p. 354
- ^ Levinson-Lessing, V. F. [in Russian]; et al. (1966). The Hermitage, Leningrad: Baroque & Rococo Masters. London: Paul Hamlyn. note no. 69 – via the Internet Archive.
- ^ Grasselli, Rosenberg & Parmantier 1984, p. 354; Zolotov 1985, p. 110
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