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- A Seated Lady
Jean Antoine Watteau
A Seated Lady
Estimate: 150.000 - 200.000 GBP
Price realised: 122.500 GBP
Price realised: 122.500 GBP
Description
Jean Antoine Watteau
VALENCIENNES 1684 - 1721 NOGENT-SUR-MARNE
A SEATED LADY
Graphite and red and white chalk, with touches of black chalk, on beige paper
197 by 123 mm
Antoine Joseph Dezallier d’Argenville (1680-1765), with his paraphe and numbering 3278 (L.2951), | his sale, Paris, 18-28 January 1779, in lot 391 (to Lenglier); | The Marquis de Varennes, | his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 12 May 1922, lot 144; | Schwab d’Héricourt, according to Labbé and Bicart-Sée (loc. cit.); | Mme François Heim, Paris, in 1968; | sale, Paris, Credit Municipal, around 1977 (cancelled); | sale, Paris, Credit Municipal,
VALENCIENNES 1684 - 1721 NOGENT-SUR-MARNE
A SEATED LADY
Graphite and red and white chalk, with touches of black chalk, on beige paper
197 by 123 mm
Antoine Joseph Dezallier d’Argenville (1680-1765), with his paraphe and numbering 3278 (L.2951), | his sale, Paris, 18-28 January 1779, in lot 391 (to Lenglier); | The Marquis de Varennes, | his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 12 May 1922, lot 144; | Schwab d’Héricourt, according to Labbé and Bicart-Sée (loc. cit.); | Mme François Heim, Paris, in 1968; | sale, Paris, Credit Municipal, around 1977 (cancelled); | sale, Paris, Credit Municipal,
Auction result misses estimated price range
This work of art by Jean-Antoine Watteau could be acquired at Sothebys in London in July 2014 for an unexpectedly low price. In the Old Master & British Drawings auction, the work A Seated Lady changed hands for GBP 122,500.00 (€ 154,511.02) - missing the lower end of the estimate range of GBP 150,000.00 – 200,000.00. Of course, this price has nothing to do with the top prices that other works by Jean-Antoine Watteau achieve. The highest price we have observed so far was reached by the work La Surprise: A couple embracing while a figure dressed as Mezzetin tunes a guitar in July 2008 with an auction result of GBP 12,361,250.00 (€ 15,705,107.29).
Auktionsergebnis verfehlt die Schätzpreisspanne
Dieses Kunstwerk von Jean-Antoine Watteau konnte im Juli 2014 bei Sothebys in London für einen unerwartet niedrigen Preis ersteigert werden. In der Auktion Old Master & British Drawings wechselte die Arbeit A Seated Lady für GBP 122.500,00 (€ 154.511,02) den Besitzer – und verfehlte damit das untere Ende der Schätzpreisspanne von GBP 150.000,00 – 200.000,00. Dieser Preis hat freilich nichts mit den Spitzenpreisen zu tun, die andere Arbeiten von Jean-Antoine Watteau erzielen. Den höchsten von uns bisher beobachteten Preis erreichte die Arbeit La Surprise: A couple embracing while a figure dressed as Mezzetin tunes a guitar im Juli 2008 mit einem Auktionsergebnis von GBP 12.361.250,00 (€ 15.705.107,29).