A Man Reclining and a Woman Seated on the Ground

c. 1716

Antoine Watteau

Artist, French, 1684 - 1721

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red, black, and white chalk on brown laid paper

  • Credit Line

    The Armand Hammer Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 24.1 x 35.9 cm (9 1/2 x 14 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.217.12

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rosenberg/Prat 1996, no. 475

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Anonymous sale, (Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 28 May 1892, no. 72); Lallemand (sale, Paris, 2 May 1894); Léon Michel-Lévy [1846-1925] (his sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 17-18 June 1925, no. 106); George Blumenthal [1858-1941], New York (his sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 1-2 December 1932, no. 48); (Jean Seligmann). [1] Mrs. Jesse I. Straus [née Irma S. Nathan, 1876-1970], New York, (her sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, 21 October 1970, no. 20); Armand Hammer Collection, Los Angeles, 1970; gift to NGA, 1991.
[1] Annotated sales catalogue in NGA library.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1932

  • The London Exhibition of French Art, 1200-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1932, no. 738 (commem. cat. no. 780).

1935

  • Master Drawings Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America. Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery. Buffalo, 1935, no. 60.

1970

  • Exhibited with the Armand Hammer collection from 1970, starting with Arkansas Art Center; except Tenn. Fine Arts Ctr. at Cheekwood, Nashville, 1976; LACMA, 1984; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1984; Albuquerque Museum, 1985; and Birmingham Museum of Art, 1985

1974

  • Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1974, no. 71.

1976

  • Old Master Drawings from American Collections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976, no. 149 (Ebria Feinblatt).

1978

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1978, p. 79.

1984

  • Watteau, 1684-1721, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1984; Grand Palais, Paris, 1984-85; Charlottenburg Castle, Berlin, 1985. Washington, 1984, 109, 150, 379-380, fig. 2, no. 79 (Margaret Morgan Grasselli).

1987

  • Master Drawings from The Armand Hammer Collection. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1987, no. 17.

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 98-99, 280, no. 40 (color).

Bibliography

1905

  • Fourcaud, Louis de. "Antoine Watteau: Scènes et Figures Galantes." La Revue de l'art ancien et moderne 17, no. 95 (February 1905): 106.

1911

  • Les Maîtres du dessin. Paris, 1911: vol. 3, plate 136.

1928

  • Réau, Louis. "Watteau." In Les Peintres français au XVIIIe siècle by Louis Dimier. Paris and Brussels, 1928: 54, no. 38.

1931

  • Parker, K. T. The Drawings of Antoine Watteau. London, 1931 (reprinted 1970): 39, 49, no. 92, pl. 92.

1932

  • Eisenstadt, Mussia. "The Drawings of Antoine Watteau." Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 1(1932): 239-240 (as Mercier).

  • Parker, K.T. "Mercier, Angélis and De Bar." Old Master Drawings 7 (December 1932): 38 note 8.

1950

  • Adhémar, Hélène and René Huyghe. Watteau, sa vie, son oeuvre. Paris, 1950: under no. 170.

1957

  • Parker, K. T., and Jacques Mathey. Catalogue de l'oeuvre dessiné d'Antoine Watteau. Paris, 1957, 2: 326, no. 665 (with incorrect dimensions).

1962

  • Mongan, Agnes. Great Drawings of all Time, French: 13th Century to 1919. Edited by Ira Moskowitz. New York, 1962, 3: no. 686.

1972

  • White, Christopher. "The Hammer Collection: Drawings." Apollo 95, no. 124 (June 1972): 460, fig. 6.

1973

  • Zolotov, Youri et al. Antoine Watteau. Catalogues raisonnés des tableaux et des dessins dans les musées russes. Leningrad, 1973: 139, under no. 6 (1985 ed.: 98, under nos. 8-11).

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 675, no. 1079, color repro. (as Couple Seated on a Bank).

  • The Watteau Society Bulletin, 1984, no. 1, p. 43.

  • Posner, Donald. Antoine Watteau. Ithaca, 1984: 208, 288 notes 18, 19, fig. 166.

1985

  • Nochlin, Linda. "Watteau: some questions of interpretation." Art in America 73, no. 1 (January 1985): 80.

  • Börsch-Supan, Helmut. Watteau 1684-1721: Führer zur Ausstellung im Schloss Charlottenburg. Berlin, 1985: no. 91.

1987

  • Boerlin-Brodbeck, Yvonne. "La Figure assise dans un paysage." in François Moureau and Margaret Morgan Grasselli, eds. Antoine Watteau (1684-1721): The Painter, His Age and His Legend. Colloquy papers from the colloquium held in Paris in 1984. Paris and Geneva, 1987: 163 note 2.

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "Watteau's Use of the Trois-Crayons Technique." In Walter Strauss and Tracie Felker, eds. Drawings Defined. New York, 1987: 181, 183, fig. 3. 189, 194 note 24.

  • 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. Colloquy papers from the colloquium held in Paris in 1984. Paris and Geneva, 1987: 96 note 8.

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "The Drawings of Antoine Watteau: stylistic development and problems of chronology." 3 vols. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1987: 1:188; 2:272-273, 290 n. 72, 504, no. 193; 3: fig. 329.

1989

  • Ingamells, John. The Wallace Collection. Catalogue of Pictures. Vol. 3, French before 1815. London, 1989: 351.

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: 792, no. 475.

1997

  • Richler, Martha. National Gallery of Art, Washington: A World of Art. London, 1997: 85-87, fig. 4.

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: 29-31, fig. 21.

2001

  • Mittler, Gene A. and James D. Howze. Creating and Understanding Drawings. New York, 2001: 219, fig. 11.18.

2010

  • Stein, Perrin. "French Drawings, Washington," The Burlington Magazine 102 (January 2010): 66, 67, fig. 85.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right in brown ink: Vataux fec. (crossed out); by later hand, lower left in graphite: Watteau.

Wikidata ID

Q64536235

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