LOT DETAILS
Materials:
red chalk
Measurements:
7.87 in. (20.00 cm.) (height) by 14.13 in. (35.90 cm.) (width)
Markings:
with inscription 'Watteau' (lower right)
Exhibited:
Watteau and his world: French drawings from 1700-1750, New York, The Frick Collection and elsewhere, 1999-2000, no. 22, cat. by A. Wintermute.
Literature:
E. de Goncourt, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé d'Antoine Watteau, Paris, 1875, under no. 545. J. Mathey, 'Remarques sur la chronologie des peintures et dessins d'Antoine Watteau', Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art français, 1939 [1940], p. 160. A.F. Blunt and E. Croft-Murray, Venetian Drawings of the XVII & XVIII Centuries in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, London, 1957, p. 61, under no. 351, and fig. 40, p. 63. K.T. Parker and J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau: Catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné, Paris, 1957, II, no. 691, illustrated. M. Cormack, The Drawings of Watteau, London, 1970, p. 34, under pl. 78. M. Morgan Grasselli, in Watteau 1684-1721, Washington, National Gallery of Art and elsewhere, 1984-5, p. 215. M. Morgan Grasselli, The Drawings of Antoine Watteau: Stylistic Development and Problems of Chronology, Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1987, pp. 237, 239-40, 246, 302, no. 173, fig. 276. J. Ingamells, The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Pictures: Vol. 3, French Before 1815, London, 1989, p. 357. F. Vivian, in The Consul Smith Collection: Masterpieces of Italian Drawing from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, Raphael to Canaletto, exh. cat., Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, and elsewhere, 1989-90, p. 58, under no. 2, illustrated. P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721: Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan, 1996, II, no. 440. L.-A. Prat, in Watteau: The Drawings, exhib. cat., London, Royal Academy of Arts, 2011, p. 128, under no. 53.
Provenance:
Camille Groult, and by descent to his son. Jean Groult, and by descent to to his son. Pierre Bordeaux-Groult. with Wildenstein & Co., New York, where acquired by Estée Lauder.