Children Parodying a Triumph of Bacchus

c. 1708/1709

Antoine Watteau

Artist, French, 1684 - 1721

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red chalk with gray wash on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Donald Stone

  • Dimensions

    overall: 17 × 21.6 cm (6 11/16 × 8 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2022.40.41

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rosenberg and Prat 1996, no. R300, (as not by Watteau, possibly by Claude Gillot)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Paul Prouté, Paris, until 1958); ( Wildenstein, New York, 1958); Grant J. Pick, Glencoe, Illinois, 1960; (Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, Chicago); (sale, Sotheby's London, 9 July 1968, no. 51, as Watteau); Private collection, 1982 - 2015 (sale, Sotheby's New York, 28 January 2015, no. 90, as attributed to Watteau); Donald Stone, New York [1942 - 2020]; bequest to NGA, 2022.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1961

  • Treasures of Chicago Collectors, Art Institute of Chicago, 1961, no no.

Bibliography

1996

  • Rosenberg, Pierre and Louis-Antoine Prat. Antoine Watteau 1684-1721. Catalogue raisonné des dessins. Milan, 1996: no. R300, (as not by Watteau, possibly by Claude Gillot)

2001

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. Review of Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Antoine Watteau 1684-1721. Catalogue raisonné des dessins. _Master Drawings_39: 325.

Inscriptions

by later hand, verso in brown ink: près Paris en 1721

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