A Shepherd and Shepherdess Seated under a Tree

1710

Antoine Watteau

Artist, French, 1684 - 1721

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red chalk with black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Donald Stone

  • Dimensions

    overall: 22.8 × 17 cm (9 × 6 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2022.40.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rosenberg and Prat 1996, no. 69

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Galerie Cailleux, Paris, c. 1985). (sale, Christie's New York: Thursday, January 28, 1999, no. 114; bought in). Donald Stone, New York [1942 - 2020]; bequest to NGA, 2022.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1985

  • Oeuvre de jeunesse de Watteau a Ingres, Galerie Cailleux, Paris, 1985, no. 42.

Bibliography

1875

  • Goncourt, Edmond de. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé d'Antoine Watteau. Paris, 1875: under no. 719

1978

  • Jean-Richard, Pierrette. L'Oeuvre grave de Francois Boucher, dans la Collection Edmond de Rothschild. Paris, 1978: under no. 147

1987

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "The Drawings of Antoine Watteau: stylistic development and problems of chronology." 3 vols. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1987: 111-112; note 33; no. 48; fig. 94.

1996

  • Rosenberg, Pierre and Louis-Antoine Prat. Antoine Watteau 1684-1721. Catalogue raisonné des dessins. Milan: Leonardo Editore, 1996: no. 69.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: Antoine Watteau

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