Mezzetin

c. 1716

Antoine Watteau

Artist, French, 1684 - 1721

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red and black chalk counterproof on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mrs. Beatrice Beck Fahnstock

  • Dimensions

    support: 43.8 x 23.6 cm (17 1/4 x 9 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1963.12.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rosenberg/Prat 1996, no. 401, State a

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Thomas Thane, 1819 [1782-1846] (Lugt 2462 and 811); William Esdaile, 1834 [1758-1837] (Lugt 2617); John Postle Heseltine [1843-1929] (Lugt 1507) ; Mrs. Beatrice Beck Fahnstock; gift to NGA, 1963.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1974

  • French 18th and 19th Century Drawings. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC 1974.

Bibliography

1957

  • Parker, K.T. and J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau, catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné. 2 vols. Paris, 1957: II, under no. 911.

1996

  • Rosenberg, Pierre and Louis-Antoine Prat. Antoine Watteau 1684-1721. Catalogue raisonné des dessins. Milan: Leonardo Editore, 1996.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower left in pen and brown ink: 44x; by Thomas Thane, upper center verso in pen and browm ink: T Th Enaht 1819; by later hand, across bottom verso in graphite: Anthony Watteau-Born at Valenciennes / in 1684 Died in France in 1721 / aged 37; by William Esdaile, lower left verso inpen and brown ink: 18344 WE 44; by later hand, on mount, upper right in graphite: Cat. 903.

Wikidata ID

Q64536222

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