LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Two shades of red chalk, within brown ink framing lines

Measurements:

2.72 in. (6.90 cm.) (height) by 2.40 in. (6.10 cm.) (width)

Literature:

M. Morgan Grasselli, 'Eighteen Drawings by Antoine Watteau: A Chronological Study', . Master Drawings , vol. 31, no. 2, 1993, pp. 119-20, no. 13, fig. 22;. P. Rosenberg and L-A Prat, . Antoine Watteau 1684-1721 Catalogue raisonné des dessins , vol. II, pp. 1034-5, no. 607, reproduced and p. 1080, under no. 633

Provenance:

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 218 (800 francs, to Danlos);. private collection, England