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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2017.119.64
People
Nicolas Henri Tardieu, French (Paris 1674 - 1749 Paris)
After Jean-Antoine Watteau, French (Valenciennes 1684 - 1721 Nogent-sur-Marne)
Title
"Happy age! Golden age, or without a care..."
Other Titles
Title: "Heureux age! Age d'or, ou sans inquietude..."
Series/Book Title: Recueil Jullienne
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/359009

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 23.3 × 23.7 cm (9 3/16 × 9 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin, left: Watteaux pinxit.
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin, right: Tardieu Sculp.
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin, left and right: Heureux age! age d'or; ou sans inquietude / Le coeur scait se livrer a d'innocens plaisirs, / Dans ces simples infans une badine Etude / Peut contenter tour leurs desirs. // O sort bien differont! l'amour, la perfidie / Nous privent d'un repos, que nous cherchons en vain, / Le tissu de nos jours est une comédie / Joüée au dépens du prochain.
  • inscription: in plate, lower margin, centered: Se vend à Paris chez Sirois sur le Quay neuf aux armes de France. A.P.R.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire, by 1884, by descent, sold [through Christie's, London, July 15, 2015, lot 172]; to private collection, United Kingdom, sold [through C. G. Boerner LLC, New York], to; Harvard Art Museums, 2017

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/ii
Standard Reference Number
Dacier & Vuaflart 75

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard Norton Memorial Fund
Accession Year
2017
Object Number
2017.119.64
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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