LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Red and black chalk

Measurements:

3.58 in. (9.10 cm.) (height) by 2.83 in. (7.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

bears number in pen and brown ink, slightly trimmed: 58 (?)

Exhibited:

London, Matthiesen Gallery, Exhibition of French Master Drawings of the 18th Century, 1950, no. 99; London, Royal Academy, Drawings by Old Masters, 1953, no. 403; London, Royal Academy, France in the 18th Century, 1968, no. 780

Literature:

E. de Goncourt, Catalogue de l'oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé d'Antoine Watteau, Paris 1875, under no. 772; D. Sutton, 'A self portrait of Watteau', The Stapeldon Magazine, 1939, no. 65, p. 349 - 352, reproduced; K.T. Parker and J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau, Catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné, Paris 1957, vol. II, p. 378, no. 916, reproduced; M. Cormack, The Drawings of Watteau, London, et al., 1970, p. 18, under no. 1; D. Eckardt, Antoine Watteau, Berlin 1973, under no. 1, reproduced; P. Bjurström, 'Two More Drawings by Watteau', [Stockholm] Nationalmuseum Bulletin, III, 3, 1979, p. 146, fig. 10; p. 148, note 18; P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, Antoine Watteau, catalogue raisonnée des dessins, Milan 1996, vol. II, p. 1100, no. 644, reproduced; p. 976, under no. 575

Provenance:

François Renaud (L.1042); Alfred Strolin, Paris,; his sale, Geneva, Kundig, 22 September 1938, lot 58, reproduced; Denys Sutton, London,; by descent to the present owner