Houppe Collection, Paris (as Watteau); Private Collection, Paris; Private Collection, Hampton Court, Surrey, since 1988
Literature
J. Wilhelm, ‘François Le Moyne and Antoine Watteau’, Art Quarterly, Autumn 1951, pp. 223-225, reproduced fig. 4; Per Bjurström, ‘Drawings in Swedish Public Collections, vol. 1V, French Drawings, Eighteenth Century,, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 1982, cited under no. 1054; Jean-Luc Bordeaux, ‘François Le Moyne and his Generation’, Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1984, p. 152, no. D54, fig. 182, also mentioned p. 88 under no. 38 and p.152 under no. D55; Jacob Bean (with the assistance of Lawrence Turčić), ‘15th – 18th Century French Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’, New York, 1986, p. 154, cited under no. 166; Perrin Stein and Mary Tavener Holmes, ‘Eighteenth Century French Drawings in New York Collections’, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 22nd – April 25th 1999, p. 22, under no. 10, illustrated fig. 10.2
Exhibited
Paris, musée Carnavalet, ‘Chefs-d’oeuvre des Collectiones Parisiennes’, 1950, no. 161
Previously attributed to Watteau, J. Wilhelm in 1951 was the first to identify this drawing as the definitive study for the valet pouring wine in Le Moyne’s The Hunt Breakfast (1723) in the Museo de Arte, Sao Paolo
