Les habits sont italiens

early 18th century

Antoine Watteau, Artist Charles Louis Simonneau, Collaborator

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About the Artwork

Title Les habits sont italiens

Artwork Date early 18th century

Makers Antoine Watteau (Artist) French, 1684-1721 Charles Louis Simonneau (Collaborator) French, 1645-1728

Medium Etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

Dimensions Plate: 12 × 8 3/8 inches (30.5 × 21.3 cm) Sheet: 18 5/8 × 12 1/2 inches (47.3 × 31.8 cm)

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 09.1S1240

Markings

Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Peint et Grave a l'eau forte par Watteau et Inscribed, lower right: retouche au burin par Simonneau l'aine. Inscribed, in plate, center lower margin: [eight-line poem by Gacon] Les habits son Italiens, | Les airs françois, et je parie | Que dans ce vrays comediens | Git vne aimable tromperie || Et qu'Italiens et françois | Riant de l'humaine folie, Ils se moquent tout à la fois | De la france et de l'italie Inscribed, center lower edge of plate: A Paris chez F. Chereau rue" St. Jacques aux 2 pilliers d'Or. C.P.G.

Marks Watermark, along lower left edge: [illegible partial letters] Stamp in black, verso: [partially illegible]

Provenance

August 1891, (F. Meder, Berlin, Germany)

purchased by Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Antoine Watteau; Charles Louis Simonneau, Les habits sont italiens, early 18th century, etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S1240.