Children Parodying a Triumph of Bacchus, c. 1708/1709

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Medium

red chalk with gray wash on laid paper

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Gift of Donald Stone

Catalogue Raisonné

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

Accession Number

2022.40.41

Artists / Makers

Antoine Watteau (artist) French, 1684 - 1721

Image Use

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Inscription

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

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

Fairweather-Hardy Gallery
Pick, Grant J.
Prouté, S.A., Paul
Sotheby's
Sotheby's, London
Stone, Donald
Wildenstein & Co., Inc.

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 Drawings39: 325.