A Fête Galante with Falconers

c. 1711-1712

Antoine Watteau

Artist, French, 1684 - 1721

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red chalk over graphite on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Neil and Ivan Phillips

  • Dimensions

    overall: 18.8 x 34.5 cm (7 3/8 x 13 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1988.1.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rosenberg/Prat 1996, no. 144

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Sotheby's, London, 30 March 1987, no. 41, as Pierre-Antoine Quillard); (Galerie de la Scala, Paris, 1987, as Pierre-Antoine Quillard); purchase by NGA with designated funds, 1988.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1987

  • Exposition des Dessins Anciens et XIXème, Galerie de la Scala, Paris, 1987, no. 16, as Pierre-Antoine Quillard.

Bibliography

1993

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "Eighteen Drawings by Antoine Watteau: A Chronological Study." Master Drawings 31/2 (1993): 106, no.3.

1996

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

1998

  • Roland Michel, Marianne. "The Rosenberg-Prat catalogue of Watteau's drawings," The Burlington Magazine 140 (Nov. 1998): 750-751, fig. 42, attrib. to Quillard.

2001

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. Review of Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Antoine Watteau 1684-1721. Catalogue raisonné des dessins. _Master Drawings_39, no. 3, 2001, 318, 333, note 18.

Watermarks

present but not identified

Wikidata ID

Q64536230

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