It shows a landscape with three young women and two young gallants. X-ray examination has shown the canvas was previously used for a composition with four people, including a woman playing a guitar and a young man, in the position now occupied by the three seated figures.
Exhibition history
List of major exhibitions featuring the work
Year
Title
Location
Cat. no.
References
Primary
Secondary
1955
An Exhibition of French Art of the 15th-20th Centuries
^Antonova, I. A.; Berezina, V. N.; Borovaya, T. A.; et al. (1955). Выставка французского искусства XV-XX вв. Каталог (in Russian). With introduction by
V. Prokofiev [
ru]. Moscow: Iskusstvo. p. 24.
^Niichel, Scott (2005). "44. Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721), An Embarrassing Proposal". Russia! (catalogue of the exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, Las Vegas). New York: Guggenheim Museum, DAP. p.
13, cat. no. 44.
ISBN0-89207-331-4.
OCLC607728025 – via the Internet Archive.
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OCLC1039987046 – via the Internet Archive.
Mathey, Jacques (1959). Antoine Watteau. Peintures réapparues inconnues ou négligées par les historiens (in French). Paris: F. de Nobele. p. 68.
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OCLC707104089.
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