Marriage Contract and Country Dancing

Marriage Contract and Country Dancing is a c. 1711 oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Antoine Watteau. It entered the Spanish royal collection as part of the collection of Isabella Farnese and was recorded in the La Granja de San Ildefonso Palace in Segovia. It is now in the Prado Museum, in Madrid. It shows the signing of a marriage contract in a rural landscape.

Marriage Contract and Country Dancing
Artist	Antoine Watteau
Year	c. 1711
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	47 cm × 55 cm (19 in × 22 in)
Location	Museo del Prado, Madrid

Further reading

• Adhemar, Helene (1950). Watteau; sa vie, son oeuvre (in French). Includes "L’univers de Watteau", an introduction by René Huyghe. Paris: P. Tisné. OCLC 853537. Catalogue note no. 134{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
• Börsch-Supan, Helmut [in German] (2000). Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721. Meister der französischen Kunst (in German). Köln: Könemann. p. 83; fig. 73. ISBN 3-8290-1630-1. OCLC 925262301.
• Camesasca, Ettore [in Portuguese] (1971). The Complete Painting of Watteau. Classics of the World's Great Art. Introduction by John Sutherland. New York: Harry N. Abrams. p. 104. ISBN 0810955253. OCLC 143069 – via the Internet Archive. Catalogue note no. 94.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
• Glorieux, Guillaume (2011). Watteau. Collection Les Phares (in French). Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod. pp. 156, 158. ISBN 9782850883408. OCLC 711039378.
• Goncourt, Edmond de (1875). Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé d'Antoine Watteau. Paris: Rapilly. pp. 181–182; cat. no. 971. OCLC 1041772738 – via the Internet Archive.
• Grasselli, Margaret Morgan; Rosenberg, Pierre; Parmantier, Nicole; et al. (1984). Watteau, 1684-1721 (PDF) (exhibition catalogue). Washington: National Gallery of Art. ISBN 0-89468-074-9. OCLC 557740787 – via the National Gallery of Art archive.
• Mantz, Paul (1892). Antoine Watteau. Paris: Librairie illustrée. pp. 187–188. OCLC 742536514 – via the Internet Archive.
• Miller, Valentin (1930). "Autour de Watteau. Un Maître inconnu: P.-A. Quillard". La Revue de l'art ancien et moderne (in French). 57: 133–152 – via Gallica.
• Pilon, Edmond (1912). Watteau et son école. Paris, Bruxelles: Librarie Nationale D'art dt d'histoire, G. Van Oest & cie. p. 77. OCLC 744619923 – via the Internet Archive.
• Posner, Donald (1984). Antoine Watteau. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 278, 284. ISBN 0-8014-1571-3. OCLC 10736607 – via the Internet Archive.
• Raymond, Florence, ed. (2013). Antoine Watteau (1684-1721): la leçon de musique (exhibition catalogue) (in French). Paris: Skira Flammarion. cat. no. 23. ISBN 978-2-0812-9583-4. OCLC 934385505.
• Réau, Louis (1928–1930). "Watteau". In Dimier, Louis (ed.). Les peintres français du XVIII-e siècle: Histoire des vies et catalogue des œuvres (in French). Vol. 1. Paris: G. Van Oest. p. 37, cat. no. 87. OCLC 564527521.
• Roland Michel, Marianne (1984). Watteau: Un artiste au XVIII-e siecle (in French). Paris: Flammarion. pp. 215, 223, 270. ISBN 978-2080120205. OCLC 417153549.
• Temperini, Renaud (2002). Watteau. Maîtres de l'art (in French). Paris: Gallimard. pp. 44, 142, cat. no. 34. ISBN 9782070116867. OCLC 300225840.
• Zimmermann, E. Heinrich [in German] (1912). Watteau: des Meisters Werke in 182 Abbildungen. Klassiker der Kunst (in German). Vol. 21. Stuttgart, Leipzig: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. p. 33. OCLC 561124140.

External links

• Eidelberg, Martin (July 2019). "Le Contrat de mariage". A Watteau Abecedario. Archived from the original on April 4, 2020.
• The Marriage Contract at the Web Gallery of Art