Two Standing Soldiers, One Wearing a Hat

1709/1710

Antoine Watteau

Artist, French, 1684 - 1721

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Donald Stone

  • Dimensions

    overall: 14.3 × 8 cm (5 5/8 × 3 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2022.40.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rosenberg and Prat 1996: no. 61

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Private collection, Basel, to 1987; (anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 29 - 30 November 1989, no. 16). (Galerie Cailleux, Paris, c. 1991). (sale, Christie's New York, 27 January 1999, no. 115); Donald Stone, New York [1942 - 2020]; bequest to NGA, 2022.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1991

  • Le Rouge et le Noir, Galerie Cailleux, Paris, 1991, no. 14.

2016

  • Watteau's Soldiers: Scenes of Military Life in Eighteenth-Century France, The Frick Collection, New York, 2016, no.11 (cat. by Aaron Wile).

Bibliography

1984

  • The Watteau Society Bulletin 1994, no. 3, 45.

1992

  • Munhall, Edgar. Little Notes Concerning Watteau's Portal of Valenciennes. New York, 1992: 23, 34 note 56.

1996

  • Rosenberg, Pierre and Louis-Antoine Prat. Antoine Watteau 1684-1721. Catalogue raisonné des dessins. Milan: Leonardo Editore, 1996: no. 61.

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