LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Black, red and white chalk and graphite

Measurements:

15.39 in. (39.10 cm.) (height) by 9.09 in. (23.10 cm.) (width)

Markings:

bears numbering in brown ink, verso: 180 C

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of French Art, 1200-1900, 1932, no. 716; Wildenstein, Paris, 1935, no. 305

Literature:

J. Guiffrey and P. Marcel, Société de Reproduction des Dessins de Maîtres, Paris 1911, no number, reproduced; L. Réau, Watteau, Paris/Brussels 1928, p. 54, no. 46; K.T. Parker and P. Mathey, Antoine Watteau, catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné, 2 vols., Paris 1957, vol. II, no. 664, reproduced; P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, Antoine Watteau 1684-1721, Catalogue raisonné des dessins, 3 vols., Milan 1996, vol. II, pp. 996-7, no. 586, reproduced

Provenance:

Chevalier de Damery, Paris (L.2862), possibly his sale, Paris, 18-19 November 1803, lot 66; purchased from Marius Paulme by Georges Dormeuil (L.1146a, on added strip of paper to left), 8 July 1908,; thence by descent to the present owners