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François WATTEAU, dit WATTEAU DE LILLE

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François WATTEAU, known as WATTEAU DE LILLE
Valenciennes 1758 - 1823 Lille
Hubert, drunk, leaving a cabaret
circa 1800
Walnut panel
Inscribed on the back: Watteau de Lille
22 x 28 cm

PROVENANCE
Probably Cailleux collection, Paris (1936)| Private collection| Delarue collection, Etretat (1994)| Acquired by current owner in 1996.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Paul Marmottant, Notice historique et critique sur les peintres Louis et François Watteau, dits : Watteau de Lille, Paris, Plon, 1889, p. 61 (not illustrated)| Gaëtane Mäes, Les Watteau de Lille. Louis Watteau (1731 - 1798). François Watteau
(1758 - 1823), Paris, Arthena, 1998, pp. 384 - 385, no. FP90 (ill. and dated circa 1800, when the painting was probably exhibited), the author reattributes it to François and not Louis.

EXHIBITIONS
1800 (an VIII), Lille, no. 8 Sortie de cabaret, Presumably 1936, Paris, no. 103 (as by Louis Watteau).