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The Cascade

Copy after Antoine Watteau French
Not on view
Around 1715, Watteau painted his pendants The Cascade (private collection) and The Country Dance (Huntington Library and Museum, Pasadena) in a rectangular format, but by the mid-1780s both had been cut down to make roundels. Sometime before the 1820s, an unknown painter created these copies of Watteau’s originals.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Cascade
  • Artist: Copy after Antoine Watteau (French, late 18th century)
  • Medium: Oil on wood
  • Dimensions: Diameter 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Bequest of Lillian S. Timken, 1959
  • Object Number: 60.71.21
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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The Country Dance, Antoine Watteau French, Oil on wood
The Country Dance
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Simon Thomassin the younger
1709–10
New Book of Different Trophies
Antoine Watteau
Chez Huquier
[ca. 1735]
L'Oeuvre D'Antoine Watteau Pientre du Roy en son Academie Roïale de Peinture et Sculpture Gravé d'après ses Tableaux & Desseins originaux...par les Soins de M. de Jullienne, Volume I, Antoine Watteau French, Engraving
L'Oeuvre D'Antoine Watteau Pientre du Roy en son Academie Roïale de Peinture et Sculpture Gravé d'après ses Tableaux & Desseins originaux...par les Soins de M. de Jullienne, Volume I
Antoine Watteau
Nicolas Henry Tardieu
ca. 1740
Figures de Differents caracteres, de Paysages . . .Volume I, Antoine Watteau French, Etching
Figures de Differents caracteres, de Paysages . . .Volume I
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1726

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