Tobit Burying the Dead

c. 1710

Antoine Watteau

Associated Names
Antoine Watteau
Artist, French, 1684 - 1721
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
Artist After, Italian, 1609 - 1664
This is a drawing of draped figures around a reclining form. The image is sketched with red chalk, showing several tall trees in the background. A vertical monument with intricate details is depicted behind the figures. The figures are engaged in an emotive exchange, with flowing garments and tender postures depicted in soft, fluid lines. The artist's use of light and shadow, primarily through hatching and shading, adds depth to the drawing.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Donald Stone, New York [1942 - 2020]

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2012

  • The Baroque Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., 2012

Bibliography

1984

  • Roland Michel, Marianne. Watteau. Un artiste au XVIIIe siècle. Paris and London, 1984: 32 and fig. 14 CHECK

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower left on mount in brown ink: Le Sueur

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