Seated Woman Looking Down

c. 1720/1721

Antoine Watteau

Artist, French, 1684 - 1721

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red and black chalk with stumping on laid paper, laid down with later framing line in brown ink

  • Credit Line

    The Armand Hammer Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 21 x 14.7 cm (8 1/4 x 5 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.217.11

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rosenberg/Prat 1996, no. 667


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Phillipe Weiner, Paris; Albert Meyer (sold Seligmann Gallery exhibition, Paris May 24-June 8, 1935, no. 100); Mrs. Jesse I. Straus (née Irma S. Nathan, 1876-1970), New York, (her sale, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 21 October 1970, no. 21); to Armand Hammer Collection, 1970; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1932

  • The London Exhibition of French Art, 1200-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1932, no. 713 (commem. cat. no. 765).

1970

  • Exhibited almost continuously with the Armand Hammer collection around the United States and abroad from late 1970 through 1987(except Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, 1971; LACMA, 1984; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1984; Albuquerque Museum, 1985; and Birmingham Museum of Art, 1985).

1978

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1978, p. 80.

1984

  • Watteau, 1684-1721, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1984; Grand Palais, Paris, 1984-85; Charlottenburg Castle, Berlin, 1985, 187, 196-197, 202, 209, no. 129 (Margaret Morgan Grasselli).

1987

  • Master Drawings from The Armand Hammer Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, 1987, no. 18.

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 106-107, 281, no. 44 (color).

Bibliography

1875

  • Goncourt, Edmond de. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé d'Antoine Watteau. Paris, 1875: 297, under no. 652.

1957

  • Parker, K.T. and J. Mathey. Catalogue de l'oeuvre dessiné d'Antoine Watteau. Paris, 1957, 2: 312, no. 577, pl. 577.

1981

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. Review of Paul Hulton, Watteau Drawings in the British Museum. Master Drawings 19, no. 3 (Autumn 1981): 312.

1985

  • Börsch-Supan, Helmut. Watteau 1684-1721: Führer zur Ausstellung im Schloss Charlottenburg. Berlin, 1985: no. 125.

1987

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "Watteau's Use of the Trois-Crayons Technique." in Walter Strauss and Tracie Felker, eds. Drawings Defined. New York, 1987: 191, 192, fig. 15, 194 note 29.

1994

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "News." The Watteau Society Bulletin 3 (1994): 54.

1996

  • Rosenberg, Pierre and Louis-Antoine Prat. Antoine Watteau 1684-1721. Catalogue raisonné des dessins. Milan: Leonardo Editore, 1996, 2: no. 667.

1999

  • Wintermute, Alan. "Le Pèlerinage à Watteau, An Introduction to the Drawings of Watteau and His Circle." In exh. cat. Watteau and His World, French Drawings from 1700 to 1750, New York and Ottawa, 1999-2000, 35, reprod. 36, fig. 29.

Wikidata ID

Q64536234


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