Seated Woman Looking Down
c. 1720/1721
Antoine Watteau
Artist, French, 1684 - 1721
Artwork overview
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Medium
red and black chalk with stumping on laid paper, laid down with later framing line in brown ink
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 21 x 14.7 cm (8 1/4 x 5 13/16 in.)
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Accession Number
1991.217.11
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Catalogue Raisonné
Rosenberg/Prat 1996, no. 667
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Phillipe Weiner, Paris; Albert Meyer (sold Seligmann Gallery exhibition, Paris May 24-June 8, 1935, no. 100); Mrs. Jesse I. Straus (née Irma S. Nathan, 1876-1970), New York, (her sale, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 21 October 1970, no. 21); to Armand Hammer Collection, 1970; gift to NGA, 1991.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1932
The London Exhibition of French Art, 1200-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1932, no. 713 (commem. cat. no. 765).
1970
Exhibited almost continuously with the Armand Hammer collection around the United States and abroad from late 1970 through 1987(except Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, 1971; LACMA, 1984; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1984; Albuquerque Museum, 1985; and Birmingham Museum of Art, 1985).
1978
Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1978, p. 80.
1984
Watteau, 1684-1721, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1984; Grand Palais, Paris, 1984-85; Charlottenburg Castle, Berlin, 1985, 187, 196-197, 202, 209, no. 129 (Margaret Morgan Grasselli).
1987
Master Drawings from The Armand Hammer Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, 1987, no. 18.
2009
Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 106-107, 281, no. 44 (color).
Bibliography
1875
Goncourt, Edmond de. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé d'Antoine Watteau. Paris, 1875: 297, under no. 652.
1957
Parker, K.T. and J. Mathey. Catalogue de l'oeuvre dessiné d'Antoine Watteau. Paris, 1957, 2: 312, no. 577, pl. 577.
1981
Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. Review of Paul Hulton, Watteau Drawings in the British Museum. Master Drawings 19, no. 3 (Autumn 1981): 312.
1985
Börsch-Supan, Helmut. Watteau 1684-1721: Führer zur Ausstellung im Schloss Charlottenburg. Berlin, 1985: no. 125.
1987
Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "Watteau's Use of the Trois-Crayons Technique." in Walter Strauss and Tracie Felker, eds. Drawings Defined. New York, 1987: 191, 192, fig. 15, 194 note 29.
1994
Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "News." The Watteau Society Bulletin 3 (1994): 54.
1996
Rosenberg, Pierre and Louis-Antoine Prat. Antoine Watteau 1684-1721. Catalogue raisonné des dessins. Milan: Leonardo Editore, 1996, 2: no. 667.
1999
Wintermute, Alan. "Le Pèlerinage à Watteau, An Introduction to the Drawings of Watteau and His Circle." In exh. cat. Watteau and His World, French Drawings from 1700 to 1750, New York and Ottawa, 1999-2000, 35, reprod. 36, fig. 29.
Wikidata ID
Q64536234