Perfect Harmony (painting)

L'Accord parfait
L'Accord parfait
The Perfect Accord
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	Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Accession	AC1999.18.1

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.

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

List of exhibitions featuring the work
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

References

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Adhémar, Hélène (1950). Watteau; sa vie, son oeuvre (in French). Includes "L’univers de Watteau", an introduction by René Huyghe. Paris: P. Tisné. cat. no. 120. OCLC 853537.
Bourcaud, Gustave (1893). Dessins, gouaches, estampes et tableaux du XVIIIe siècle : guide de l'amateur. Paris: D. Morgand. p. 532 – via the Internet Archive.
Dacier, Émile; Vuaflart, Albert (1922). Jean de Julienne et les graveurs de Watteau au XVIII-e siècle. III. Catalogue (in French). Paris: M. Rousseau. cat. no. 23. doi:10.11588/DIGLIT.41977. OCLC 1039156495.
Ferré, Jean, ed. (1972). Watteau (in French). Vol. 1. Madrid: Éditions Athena. cat. no. B29. OCLC 906101135.
Glorieux, Guillaume (2011). Watteau. Collection Les Phares (in French). Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod. p. 162. ISBN 9782850883408. OCLC 711039378.
Goncourt, Edmond de (1875). Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé d'Antoine Watteau (in French). Paris: Rapilly. p. 95–96, cat. no. 97. OCLC 1041772738 – via the Internet Archive.
Hédouin, P. [in French] (November 30, 1845). "Watteau: catalogue de son oeuvre". L'Artiste (in French). pp. 78–80 – via Gallica. p. 79, cat. no. 63{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
Hédouin, P. (1856). Mosaïque. Peintres, musiciens, littérateurs, artistes dramatiques à partir du 15e siècle jusqu'à nos jours (in French). Paris: Heugel. p. 100, cat. no. 64. OCLC 1157159285 – via the Internet Archive.
Herold, Jacques; Vuaflart, Albert (1929). Jean de Julienne et les graveurs de Watteau au XVIII-e siècle. I. Notices et documents biographiques (in French). Paris: M. Rousseau. p. 98. OCLC 1039157338.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2003). Los Angeles County Museum of Art: With 197 Illustrations, 184 in Color. London: Thames & Hudson. p. 108. ISBN 0-500-20360-1 – via the Internet Archive.
Mathey, Jacques (1959). Antoine Watteau. Peintures réapparues inconnues ou négligées par les historiens (in French). Paris: F. de Nobele. p. 69. OCLC 954214682.
Ramade, Patrick & Eidelberg, Martin P. (2004). Watteau et la fête galante: Musée des beaux-arts de Valenciennes, 5 mars-14 juin 2004 (in French). Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux. cat. no. 56. ISBN 9782711846771. OCLC 492866933.
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. 40, cat. no. 118. OCLC 564527521.
Roland Michel, Marianne. Watteau: Tutti I Dipinti. I Maestri (in Italian). Vol. 19. Translated from the French by Marina Anzil Robertini. Milano: Rizzoli. cat. no. 239. OCLC 48636176. OCLC 801077589. Published in French as Tout Watteau. La Peinture. Paris: Flammarion. 1982. ISBN 2-08-012226-6. OCLC 490060827.
Roland Michel, Marianne (1984). Watteau (in French). Paris: Flammarion. pp. 55, 266, 287. ISBN 9782080120205. OCLC 417153549.
Temperini, Renaud (2002). Watteau. Maîtres de l'art (in French). Paris: Gallimard. cat. no. 106. 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. pp. 23, 186. OCLC 561124140.

External links

The Perfect Accord at the LACMA's official web site
Eidelberg, Martin (March 2014). "L'Accord parfait". A Watteau Abecedario. Archived from the original on April 3, 2020. Retrieved October 17, 2020.