LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Black and red chalk with touches of white heightening

Measurements:

2.72 in. (6.90 cm.) (height) by 2.36 in. (6.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

bears numbering in brown ink, top left: 36

Condition:

(partly oxidised)

Literature:

M. Morgan Grasselli, 'Eighteen Drawings by Antoine Watteau: A Chronological Study', . Master Drawings , vol. 31, no. 2, 1993, pp. 119-20, no. 12, fig. 21;. P. Rosenberg and L. A. Prat, . Antoine Watteau 1684-1721 Catalogue raisonné des dessins , vol. II, cat. 633, reproduced (. recto and . verso

Provenance:

Prince Lobanoff-Rostovsky (according to label on back of frame);. 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 217 (1.950 francs, to Danlos);. private collection, England