A Comic Actor Dressed as a Gentleman [recto]

c. 1729

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater

Artist, French, 1695 - 1736

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red chalk on 2 joined sheets of laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Neil and Ivan Phillips

  • Dimensions

    overall: 22.9 x 23.2 cm (9 x 9 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1996.25.1.a

Associated Artworks

Rococo Wall Design with a Fountain and Swans [verso]

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater

1729

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Camille Groult [1837-1908]; (sale, Paris, 18 December 1941, lot 39);[1] Jacques Mathey, Paris, by 1957; (sale, New York, Christie's, 10 January 1996, lot 198); purchased by NGA, 1996.
[1] Provenance in Christie's 10 January 1996 sale catalogue indicates this was lot 39 in a Paris sale on 18 December 1941. Research has uncovered only one Hotel Drouot sale on that date, and lot 39 in that sale catalogue does not correspond in title, dimensions nor medium. There is nothing in the object file to clarify this discrepancy.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1957

  • Parker, K.T. and J. Mathey. Antoine Watteau. Paris, 1957: I no. 204 (verso, illustrated as by Watteau).

1993

  • Grasselli, M. Morgan. "Eighteen Drawings by Antoine Watteau: A Chronological Study." Master Drawings, XXXI (1993): 126, under note 13 (as not by Watteau).

Inscriptions

by later hand, center right in graphite, erased: 24 / 20 / 10 / 120

Watermarks

crescent moon (partial watermark)

Wikidata ID

Q64581141

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