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

1718/1719

Antoine Watteau

Artist, French, 1684 - 1721

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red chalk 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.b

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rosenberg/Prat 1996, no. 620

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, no. 36.

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.

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

1996

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

Watermarks

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

Wikidata ID

Q64536228

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