LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Red and black chalk counterproof

Measurements:

10.08 in. (25.60 cm.) (height) by 8.11 in. (20.60 cm.) (width)

Markings:

bears numbering in red chalk: 285

Literature:

K.T. Parker and J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau, catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné, Paris 1957, vol. II, p. 321; p. 329, no. 683; reproduced fig. 683;; M. Eidelberg, Watteau's Drawings, Their Use and Significance, New York and London 1977, p. 34, under note 62;; C.T. Eisler, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools, excluding Italian, London 1977, p. 301, under no. K1344; reproduced text fig. 97;; Watteau, exhib. cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, et al., 1984-85, p. 443, under Related Drawings for no. P71, reproduced fig. 17;; M.M. Grasselli, The Drawings of Antoine Watteau: Stylistic Development and Problems of Chronology, unpublished PhD dissertation, Harvard University, 1987, vol. II, p. 384 and notes 14, 15; p. 385; p. 543, no. 292; reproduced vol. III, fig. 474;; From Pisanello to Cézanne - Master Drawings from the Museum Boymans - van Beuningen, Rotterdam, exhib. cat., New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, et al., 1990-91, p. 227, under no. 84;; P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, Antoine Watteau, catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan 1996, vol. II, p. 1064, no. 624, reproduced p. 1065;; K. Baetjer, Watteau, Music and Theater, exhib. cat., New York, Metropolitan Museum, p. 48, under References to no. 13

Provenance:

Camille Groult, Paris,; by descent to his son, Jean Groult,; by descent to his son, Pierre Bordeaux-Groult; A. Stoll, mountmaker (L.2786c)