LOT DETAILS

Materials:

red chalk

Measurements:

4.02 in. (10.20 cm.) (height) by 2.36 in. (6.00 cm.) (width)

Literature:

K.T. Parker and J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau: Catalogue complet de son oeuvre Dessiné, Paris, 1957, vol. I, no. 161, reproduced; P. Rosenberg and L-A. Prat, Antoine Watteau 1684-1721, Catalogue raisonné des Dessins, Milan 1996, vol. I, p. 88, fig. 56a, vol. III, p.1216, no. R245; Margaret Morgan Grasselli, 'Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, review of Antoine Watteau 1684-1721. Catalogue raisonné des dessins,' Master Drawings, vol. 39, no. 3, 2001, p. 325, as no. R245

Provenance:

Victor Koch; H. Eisemann (according to an inscription on the back of a photograph, mentioned in P. Rosenberg & L.-A. Prat, op.cit below); Dr. Edmund Schilling, London, 1957; Mathias Komor, no. 879