LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Red and black chalk with touches of white chalk

Measurements:

5.12 in. (13.00 cm.) (height) by 6.69 in. (17.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

bears the mark of the mountmaker Adolphe Stoll, (L.2786c), on the mount

Literature:

E. de Goncourt, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé d'Antoine Watteau, Paris 1875, p. 352, no. 18;; K.T. Parker and J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau, catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné, Paris 1957, vol. II, p. 344, no. 763, reproduced fig. 763;; P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, Antoine Watteau, catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan 1996, vol. II, p. 758, no. 457, reproduced (as possibly reworked by another hand)

Provenance:

Andrew James (1792/94-1854); by descent to his daughter, Sarah Ann James,; her estate sale, London, Christie's, 22-23 June 1891, lot 305 where bought by Obach; Camille Groult; by descent to his son, Jean Groult; by descent to his son, Pierre Bordeaux-Groult