Perfect Harmony (painting)
Painting by Antoine Watteau
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The Perfect Accord (L'Accord parfait), also adapted into English as Perfect Harmony, is an oil-on-panel painting by Antoine Watteau, created c. 1719,[1] now held in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It was the pendant to the same artist's The Surprise.
| L'Accord parfait | |
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| The Perfect Accord | |
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| Artist | Antoine Watteau |
| Year | ca. 1719 |
| Catalogue | H 63 (64); G 97; DV 23; R 118; HA 120; EC 196; F B29; RM 239; RT 106 |
| Medium | oil on panel |
| Dimensions | 35.5 cm × 28 cm (14.0 in × 11 in) |
| Location | |
| Accession | AC1999.18.1 |
It was initially owned by a friend of the artist, Nicolas Hénin, but it[1] and Surprise were sold separately by his heir around 1756.
Exhibition history
| Year | Title | Location | Cat. no. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1871 | Old Masters | Royal Academy of Arts, London | 130 | ||||||
| 1891 | Old Masters | Royal Academy of Arts, London | 55 | ||||||
| 1933 | Three French Reigns | Sassoon House, London | 98 | ||||||
| 1954–1955 | European Masters of the Eighteenth Century | Royal Academy of Arts, London | 237 | ||||||
| 1968 | The French Taste in English Painting | Kenwood House, London | 12 | ||||||
| 2004 | Watteau et la fête galante | Musée des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes | 56 | ||||||
| General reference: Eidelberg 2014 | |||||||||
