LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Red chalk

Measurements:

13.90 in. (35.30 cm.) (height) by 9.33 in. (23.70 cm.) (width)

Markings:

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

Literature:

K.T. Parker and J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau, catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné, Paris 1957, vol. I, p. 4; p. 6, no.4, reproduced;; J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau, peintures réapparues... identification par les dessins... , Paris 1959, p. 66;; E. Croft-Murray, "Watteau's Design for a Fan-Leaf", Apollo, XCIX, no. 145, March 1974, p. 178; p. 181, note 12; reproduced p. 180, fig. 7;; P. Hulton, Watteau Drawings in the British Museum, exhib. cat., London, British Museum, 1980-1981, p. 23, cited under no. 6;; M. Morgan Grasselli, The Drawings of Antoine Watteau: Stylistic development and problems of Chronology, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1987, vol. I, pp. 36-37, 53-54; vol. II, p. 433, no. 2; vol. III, reproduced fig. 13;; P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, Antoine Watteau, catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan 1996, vol. I, p. 14, no. 8, reproduced;; J. Tonkovitch, Claude Gillot and the Theater, with a Catalogue of Drawings, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2002, p. 43, note 115

Provenance:

Camille Groult; by descent to his son, Jean Groult; by descent to his son, Pierre Bordeaux-Groult