Marriage Contract and Country Dancing explained

Marriage Contract and Country Dancing
Artist:	Antoine Watteau
Year:	c. 1711
Medium:	oil on canvas
Height Metric:	47
Width Metric:	55
Museum:	Museo del Prado
City:	Madrid

Marriage Contract and Country Dancing is a c. 1711 oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Antoine Watteau. It entered the Spanish royal collection as part of the collection of Isabella Farnese and was recorded in the La Granja de San Ildefonso Palace in Segovia. It is now in the Prado Museum, in Madrid.^[1] It shows the signing of a marriage contract in a rural landscape.^[2]

References

1. Web site: museodelprado.es.
2. Web site: cvc.cervantes.es.

Further reading

• Book: Adhemar, Helene. Watteau; sa vie, son oeuvre.. Includes "L’univers de Watteau", an introduction by René Huyghe. P. Tisné. 1950. fr. Paris. 853537. . Catalogue note no. 134.
• Book: Börsch-Supan, Helmut. Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721. Meister der französischen Kunst.

  de:Helmut Börsch-Supan

  . Könemann. 2000. 3-8290-1630-1. Köln. p. 83; fig. 73. de. 925262301.
• Book: Camesasca, Ettore. The Complete Painting of Watteau. registration. Harry N. Abrams. Introduction by John Sutherland. 1971. 0810955253.

  pt:Ettore Camesasca

  . Classics of the World's Great Art. New York. 104. the Internet Archive. 143069. . Catalogue note no. 94..
• Book: Glorieux, Guillaume. Watteau. fr. Paris. Citadelles & Mazenod. 2011. Collection Les Phares. 156, 158. 9782850883408. 711039378.
• Book: Goncourt, Edmond de. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé d'Antoine Watteau. Rapilly. 1875. Paris. pp. 181–182; cat. no. 971. 1041772738. Edmond de Goncourt. the Internet Archive.
• Book: Grasselli. Margaret Morgan. Rosenberg. Pierre. Pierre Rosenberg. Parmantier. Nicole. etal. Watteau, 1684-1721. exhibition catalogue. National Gallery of Art. Washington. 1984. the National Gallery of Art archive. 0-89468-074-9. 557740787.
• Book: Mantz, Paul. Antoine Watteau. Librairie illustrée. 1892. Paris. 187–188. the Internet Archive. 742536514.
• Miller. Valentin. fr. 1930. Autour de Watteau. Un Maître inconnu: P.-A. Quillard. La Revue de l'art ancien et moderne. 57. 133–152. Gallica.
• Book: Pilon, Edmond. Watteau et son école. Librarie Nationale D'art dt d'histoire, G. Van Oest & cie. 1912. Paris, Bruxelles. 77. 744619923. the Internet Archive.
• Book: Posner, Donald. Donald Posner. Antoine Watteau. registration. 1984. London. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 278, 284. 0-8014-1571-3. 10736607. the Internet Archive.
• Book: Raymond. Florence. Antoine Watteau (1684-1721): la leçon de musique. fr. Skira Flammarion. 2013. 978-2-0812-9583-4. Paris. cat. no. 23. exhibition catalogue. 934385505.
• Book: Réau, Louis. Les peintres français du XVIII-e siècle: Histoire des vies et catalogue des œuvres. G. Van Oest. 1928–1930. Dimier. Louis. 1. Paris. p. 37, cat. no. 87. fr. Watteau. 564527521.
• Book: Roland Michel, Marianne. Watteau: Un artiste au XVIII-e siecle. fr. Flammarion. 1984. 978-2080120205. Paris. 215, 223, 270. 417153549.
• Book: Temperini, Renaud. 2002. Watteau. Maîtres de l'art. fr. Paris. Gallimard. pp. 44, 142, cat. no. 34. 9782070116867. 300225840.
• Book: Zimmermann, E. Heinrich. Watteau: des Meisters Werke in 182 Abbildungen. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. 1912. Stuttgart, Leipzig. 33. de.

  de:Ernst Heinrich Zimmermann

  . Klassiker der Kunst. 21. 561124140.

External links

• Web site: Eidelberg. Martin. Martin Eidelberg. Le Contrat de mariage. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200404003113/http://watteau-abecedario.org/Contrat_de_marriage.htm. April 4, 2020. A Watteau Abecedario. July 2019.
• The Marriage Contract at the Web Gallery of Art