Pastoral Pleasure

Pastoral Pleasure (French - Le Plaisir pastoral) is a c. 1714–1716 fête galante painting by Antoine Watteau, now in the Musée Condé in Chantilly. Two other Watteau paintings survive with extremely similar compositions - the largest and most finished is The Shepherds, now in the Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin; another painting of that composition, once owned by Georges Wildenstein, seems to be a reworking of the Charlottenburg painting. Pierre Rosenberg argues that the Chantilly painting was an oil sketch for the Charlottenburg one. Three other copies of the Chantilly version appeared in 19th and 20th century auctions, but their locations are now unknown.

The Chantilly work belonged to Pierre-Jean Mariette, a great Watteau collector – it is mentioned as being in his possession from at least 1729, around which time Nicolas-Henri Tardieu made an engraving after it. On 1 February 1775 it was s…

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