Word: mezzetin
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...Relief Exhibition netted more than $2,000 with pictures priced at $5-$50. U. S. sales of the year were a Charles Willson Peale Washington to the Brooklyn Museum (price undisclosed) ; an early Rembrandt of Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet to the Chicago Art Institute; Jean Antoine Watteau's Mezzetin to the Metropolitan Museum for some $250,000 (TIME, Dec. 17). The 1934 U. S. art turnover easily topped...
What the Metropolitan got last week for its money was Watteau's excellent Le Mezzetin, whose full title is Le Mezzetin jouant de la Guitare. In 1932 Soviet Russia needed ready cash, dug Le Mezzetin out of Leningrad's Hermitage Museum, sold it to Manhattan's Wildenstein Galleries. Wildenstein lent it last summer to Chicago's Century of Progress art show. It will be shown at the Metropolitan in January...
...place, snubbed his friends, had neither morals nor vices, distrusted himself and his painting and worked stupendously. In 1716 the Italian comedians whom Louis XIV's prudish mistress, Maintenon, had banished 19 years before, were called back to France, and Watteau caught the vogue for them by painting Le Mezzetin...
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