LOT DETAILS

Materials:

red, black and white chalk

Measurements:

9.76 in. (24.80 cm.) (height) by 12.60 in. (32.00 cm.) (width)

Literature:

K.T. Parker and J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau, catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné, Paris, 1957, II, no. 718, illus. D. Posner, Antoine Watteau, London, 1984, pp. 237, 288, note 19. M.M. Grasselli, The drawings of Antoine Watteau, stylistic development and problems of chronology, unpubl. Ph.D, Cambridge, Harvard University, 1987, pp. 216, 290, note 72. M.M. Grasselli, 'News' in The Watteau Society Bulletin, III, 1994, p. 54. P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, Antoine Watteau, 1648-1721, catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan, 1997, II, no. 508.

Provenance:

Grand Duke Hesse-Nassau (on loan to the Landesmuseum, Darmstadt). W. Hanhart (according to Parker and Mathey). Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 15 December 1954, lot 120. Minnie Cassatt, Philadelphia; by descent to the present owner.