Three Studies of a Woman's Head and a Study of Hands [recto]

1718/1719

Antoine Watteau

Artist, French, 1684 - 1721

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red chalk and graphite with black chalk and pink wash on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 17.9 x 15.9 cm (7 1/16 x 6 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1963.15.34.a

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rosenberg/Prat 1996, no. 620

Associated Artworks

View of a House, a Cottage, and Two Figures [verso]

Antoine Watteau

1718


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Probably Charles Gasc (L.544), Paris, c. 1850; (Vente L. Tabourier, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 20-22 June 1898, no. 144); Richard S. Owen, Paris; purchased 1937 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1963 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1984

  • Watteau, 1684-1721. National Gallery of Art and tour, 1984-85, 99-102, no. 36 (Margaret Morgan Grasselli).

1999

  • "Watteau and His World: French Drawings from 1700 to 1750", The Frick Collection, New York; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1999-2000, no. 44a, 44b (Alan Wintermute).

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 104-105, 281, no. 43 (color; recto and verso).

Bibliography

1875

  • Goncourt, Edmond de. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé d'Antoine Watteau. Paris, 1875: under no. 572.

1957

  • Parker, K.T. and J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau, catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné. 2 vols. Paris, 1957, 2: no. 781.

1977

  • Eisler, Colin. _Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. London, 1977: 300, dK505, fig. 265.

1978

  • Jean-Richard, Pierrette. Musée du Louvre. Cabinet des Dessins. Collection Edmond de Rothschild. Inventaire général des graveurs. École Français I. L'Oeuvre gravé de François Boucher... Paris, 1978, 51, under no. 101 (verso).

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 675, no. 1078, color repro. (recto only).

  • Opperman, Hal. "The Countenance of Watteau." unpublished manuscript, 1984: 50.

  • Roland Michel, Marianne. Watteau. Un artiste au XVIIIe siècle. Paris and London, 1984: 87-88, 253, 277 note 33.

1985

  • Börsch-Supan, Helmut. Watteau 1684-1721: Führer zur Ausstellung im Schloss Charlottenburg. Berlin, 1985: no. 84.

1987

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "New Observations on Some Watteau Drawings." in François Moureau and Margaret Morgan Grasselli, eds., Antoine Watteau (1684-1721): The Painter, His Age and His Legend. Papers from the colloquium held in Paris in 1984. Paris, 1987: 99-100, fig. 10 (recto) and fig, 12 (verso).

  • Roland Michel, Marianne. "Watteau et les Figures de différents caractères." In François Moureau and Margaret Morgan Grasselli, eds., Antoine Watteau (1684-1721): The Painter, His Age and His Legend. Papers from the colloquium held in Paris in 1984. Paris, 1987: 119 note 2.

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "The Drawings of Antoine Watteau: stylistic development and problems of chronology." 3 vols. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1987: 240 n. 10, 410 n. 55, 427-428, no. 257, figs. 519 (recto) and 520 (verso).

1996

  • Rosenberg, Pierre and Louis-Antoine Prat. Antoine Watteau 1684-1721. Catalogue raisonné des dessins. Milan: Leonardo Editore, 1996, 2: no. 620.

1998

  • Sotheby's New York, sale cat., 21 May 1998, 166, under lot 125, fig. 2.

Watermarks

F FONTAINE w/ heart between, all enclosed in a long oval

Wikidata ID

Q64536224


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