LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Red and black chalk (recto) black chalk (verso)

Measurements:

6.22 in. (15.80 cm.) (height) by 7.87 in. (20.00 cm.) (width)

Literature:

M. Morgan Grasselli, 'Eighteen Drawings by Antoine Watteau: A Chronological Study',. Master Drawings , vol. 31, no. 2, 1993, pp. 112-13, no. 7, figs. 11-12;. P. Rosenberg and L-A Prat,. Antoine Watteau 1684-1721 Catalogue raisonné des dessins , Milan 1996, vol. II, pp. 976-7, no. 575, reproduced (. recto and. verso ), p. 1100, under no. 644

Provenance:

Chevalier de Damery (L.2862);. Pierre Defer (1798-1870), Paris (L.739), . by inheritance to his son-in-law Henri Dumesnil (1823-1898), . his sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 10-12 May 1900, lot 220 (780 francs, to Danlos);. private collection, England