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Three head studies of a girl wearing a hat by 
																	Jean Antoine Watteau

Jean Antoine Watteau

( French, 1684 - 1721 )

Three head studies of a girl wearing a hat

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LOT DETAILS

Materials:

black and red chalk, graphite, watermark with letters ‘[…OA…ENE]’

Size Notes:

14 x 24.7 cm.

Description:

or LOG IN

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Antoine Watteau. The Drawings, 2011, no. 53, ill., and p. 24 (catalogue by P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat).

Literature:

E. de Goncourt, Catalogue raisonn de luvre peint, dessin et grav dAntoine Watteau, Paris, 1875, p. 272, under no. 518, and p. 290, under no. 622.K.T. Parker and J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau, Paris, 1957, no. 717, ill.M. Roland Michel, Watteau. Un Artiste au XVIIIe sicle, Paris, 1984, p. 335.M.M. Grasselli, The Drawings of Antoine Watteau. Stylistic Development and Problems of Chronology, Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1987, I, no. 203, II, fig. 278.M.M. Grasselli, News, Watteau Society Bulletin, III, 1994, p. 56, ill.P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721. Catalogue raisonn des dessins, Milan, 1994, II, no. 438, ill.C. Bailey, Books in review: Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721. Catalogue raisonn des dessins, On Paper, I, no. 5, May-June 1997, p. 46, fig. 5.H. Wine, Watteau. London, The Burlington Magazine, CLIII, no. 133, July 2001, pp. 89-90, fig. 55.L.-A. Prat, Trente ans et des poussires. Une vue cavalire du march du dessin, Revue de lart, CXLIII, 2004, p. 93, fig. 6.E. Lajer-Burcharth, Drawing Time, October, CLI, Winter 2015, p. 18, ill.L.-A. Prat, Le Dessin franais au XVIIIe sicle, Paris, 2017, p. 54, fig. 84.

Provenance:

Private collection, Switzerland.with Eugene V. Thaw & Co., New York.John R. Gaines (1929-2005), Kentucky; Sothebys, New York, 17 November 1986, lot 22.?Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.

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