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Watteau: Reverie and Realism
The Wallace Collection · London
12 March 2027 to 25 July 2027
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard, L’Instant désiré ou Les Amants heureux, 18th century. Oil on canvas, 49.5 × 60.5 cm. Graziella Patiño de Ortiz Linares collection; sold at Christie’s Paris, 23 September 2026, lot 12.Image: Christie’s. Source. Fragonard makes €10.6 million in Paris, but its destination remains unknown
Fragonard and Watteau accounted for more than half of the Patiño evening sale. The results leave open the public-access question raised before the auction.