A Comic Actor Dressed as a Gentleman [recto]
c. 1729
Artist, French, 1695 - 1736
Artwork overview
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Medium
red chalk on 2 joined sheets of laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 22.9 x 23.2 cm (9 x 9 1/8 in.)
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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