Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721. Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera (Musée du Louvre)

Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721. Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera (Musée du Louvre)
Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721. Pilgrimage to Cythera (Musée du Louvre)
Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721. Pèlerinage à l'isle de Cithère (Musée du Louvre)
Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721. Pèlerinnage à l'isle de Cythère (Musée du Louvre)
Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721. Embarkation for Cythera (Musée du Louvre)
Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721. Embarkment for Cythera (Musée du Louvre)
Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721. Embarquement pour l'isle de Cythère (Musée du Louvre)
Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721. Embarquement pour Cythère (Musée du Louvre)
Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721. Einschiffung nach Kythera (Schloss Charlottenburg)

found: Grasselli, M. Watteau, 1684-1721, 1984:p. 396 (Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera (L'Pèlerinage à l'isle de Cithère); Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1717; presentation piece to the Royal Academy; inventoried by Chardin in 1775 as "An embarkation for Cythera") p. 406 (The Embarkation for Cythera (L'Embarquement pour Cythère); Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin; a repetition of the previous theme (but not an identical painting) prob. done 1718 or 1719 for Jullienne; engraving of the latter by Tardieu in 1733 titled Ad Cythera Conscensio/Embarquement pour Cythère) p. 261 (The Island of Cythera (L'isle de Cithère); Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut; date uncert.)

found: Groveart, WWW home page, 08-03-01(Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera (1717; Paris, Louvre); the painting's appeal led to a commission for a second version (Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg), probably from the collector Jean de Jullienne; he had painted a different work with similar title in 1709: Island of Cythera (Frankfurt a.M., Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut))

found: Enc. Brit. online, 08-08-01:(under Watteau: L'Embarquement pour l'isle de Cythère (1717; Louvre))

found: Watteau, Antoine. Watteau, the Embarkment for Cythera, 2000:p. 2 (The Embarkment for Cythera, 1718-19: Berlin, Charlottenburg Castle (oil on canvas, 129 x 194 cm.); second version of a subject already treated by Watteau in a painting with a very similar composition and an identical title, now in the Louvre; 1st work on subject was done in 1705--The Embarkment for Cythera, now in Heugel Collection in Paris [this is a copy; orig. in Frankfurt a.m.])

found: Cythère de Watteau, 1996:p. 4 (Pèlerinnage à l'isle de Cythère, Musée du Louvre, Paris)

found: Held, J. Antoine Watteau, Einschiffung nach Kythera, 1985:p. 9 etc. (author uses the title Einschiffung nach Kythera for all three of Watteau's Cythera paintings)

found: LC data base 08-08-01:(hgd.: Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721. Pilgrimage to Cythera)

[Watteau painted 3 works on the theme of Cythera which are known by many titles, most commonly: Island of Cythera (in Frankfurt a.M.), Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera (in Paris), and Embarkation for Cythera (in Berlin)]