Jean-Antoine Watteau - La Surprise: A couple embracing while a figure dressed as Mezzetin tunes a guitar

Jean-Antoine Watteau

La Surprise: A couple embracing while a figure dressed as Mezzetin tunes a guitar

Found at Christies, London
Important Old Master & British PicturesEvening Sale, Lot 21
8. Jul - 8. Jul 2008
Estimate: 3.000.000 - 5.000.000 GBP
Price realised: 12.361.250 GBP
Description
Jean-Antoine Watteau (Valenciennes 1684-1721)
La Surprise: A couple embracing while a figure dressed as Mezzetin tunes a guitar
oil on panel
14½ x 11½ in. (36.3 x 28.2 cm.)
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A top price for Jean-Antoine Watteau

This artwork by Jean-Antoine Watteau achieved an unexpectedly high price at Christies in London in July 2008. In the Important Old Master & British PicturesEvening Sale auction, the work La Surprise: A couple embracing while a figure dressed as Mezzetin tunes a guitar sold for GBP 12,361,250.00 (€ 15,705,107.29) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 5,000,000.00. This high result makes La Surprise: A couple embracing while a figure dressed as Mezzetin tunes a guitar the most expensive artwork by Jean-Antoine Watteau that we have observed at auctions so far.

Ein Spitzenpreis für Jean-Antoine Watteau

Dieses Kunstwerk von Jean-Antoine Watteau erzielte im Juli 2008 bei Christies in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Important Old Master & British PicturesEvening Sale wurde die Arbeit La Surprise: A couple embracing while a figure dressed as Mezzetin tunes a guitar für GBP 12.361.250,00 (€ 15.705.107,29) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 5.000.000,00. Dieses hohe Ergebnis macht La Surprise: A couple embracing while a figure dressed as Mezzetin tunes a guitar zu dem teuersten Kunstwerk von Jean-Antoine Watteau, das wir bisher bei Auktionen beobachtet haben.

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