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| Title | The Vintage | |
| Alternative Title | La Vendange | |
| Collection | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): Kelvingrove Museum | |
| Artist | Attributed to manner of Watteau, Louis Joseph (French painter and draftsman, 1731-1798) Previously attributed to manner of Dupont, François Léonard (French artist, 1756-1821) |
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| Date Earliest | possibly about 1784 | |
| Date Latest | possibly about 1784 | |
| Description | The picture was originally attributed to Francois Dupont when it came into the collection. However, the painting carries similar stylistic traits to the art of Louis Watteau, father in law of Francois Dupont and it has been listed as by Watteau in Gaetane Maes's, Les Watteau de Lille: Louis Watteau (1731-1798) and Francois Watteau (1758-1823), Paris, 1994, pp. 288-289. The subject matter, emphasising the activities of everyday life, is typical of the period the work was painted. A rustic group celebrating with music and rejoicing the ingathering of the grape harvest. Louis Watteau was painting similar subjects at the time. The seated groups of people recall Watteau's L'Hommage de La Flèche À La Rosière and Le Seigneur Faisant La Première Danse Avec La Rosière (both in private collections). In composition and subject matter it resembles Watteau's Fête Villageoisie (Musée des Beaux Arts, Marseille) of 1797. In 1784 at the Salon of Lille, Watteau exhibited Les Presents des Vendangeurs, which could be this work, and would date it to about1784. | |
| Current Accession Number | 219 | |
| Subject | everyday life | |
| Measurements | 63.9 x 80.3 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Bequeathed by Archibald McLellan 1854. | |
| Principal Exhibitions | (?) Lille, 1874, cat. no. 1 | |
| Publications | Catalogue of Pictures, Glasgow Art Galleries, 1935, p. 91; French School Catalogue, vol. 2 (Illustrations), Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, 1967, p.55; French Paintings and Drawings Illustrated Summary Catalogue Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, 1985, p. 53; Maes, Gaetane, Les Watteau de Lille: Louis Watteau (1731-1798) and Francois Watteau (1758-1823), Paris, 1994, pp. 288-289; Scottish Art Review, 1964, vol. IX, no. 4, pp. 24-25; The McLellan Gallery, Catalogue of Pictures, bequeathed to The People of Glasgow by the late Archibald McLellan for many years a Magistrate of the City, Glasgow, 1855, p. 13, no. 16, as The Vintage, by Paul Dupont. | |
| Rights Owner | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) | |
| Author | Dr Georgia Toutziari | |