Antoine Watteau's oeuvre La Surprise is now exhibited at The FrickCollection, where the picture will be on loan for two years.
Antoine Watteau's magnificent picture has long been deemed a masterpiece of eighteenth-century French painting by scholars and connoisseurs. The panel was originally in the collection of Nicolas Hénin (1691-1724), Councilor to the King and a close friend of the artist, for whom it may have been painted. The work then entered several prestigious Parisian collections before ending up in England and disappearing from public view. Unpublished, unexhibited, and presumed lost for nearly two hundred years, La Surprise was discovered in an English private collection in 2007.
The current owner's generosity has made it possible for this important example It is installed in the North Hall, near works by other French artists, among them Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Claude Monet.
Location: The Frick Collection. 1 East 70th Street. New York, NY. 10021, USA.
Opening hours: from Tuesday to Saturday from 10am to 6pm. Sundays from 11am to 5pm.
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