Three Studies of a Woman's Head and a Study of Hands [recto]
1718/1719
Artist, French, 1684 - 1721

Artwork overview
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Medium
red chalk and graphite with black chalk and pink wash on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 17.9 x 15.9 cm (7 1/16 x 6 1/4 in.)
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Accession
1963.15.34.a
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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 unpublished manuscript, 1984: 50.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