The Gallant Gardener, c. 1711-1712

Not on View

Medium

red chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 22.9 x 18.1 cm (9 x 7 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Rosenberg/Prat 1996, no. 169

Accession Number

1992.78.1

Artists / Makers

Antoine Watteau (artist) French, 1684 - 1721

Image Use

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Provenance

Private collection, Germany; (sale, London, Sotheby's, 6 July 1992, no. 169, as French School, 18th Century); (Galerie Cailleux, Paris); purchased by NGA, 1992.

Associated Names

Galerie Cailleux

Exhibition History

1992: NGA Durer to Diebenkorn 1992 (late addition, not in catalogue)

1994: Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in European Graphic Art and Related Objects, 1300-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994.

Bibliography

1875: Goncourt, Edmond de. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé d'Antoine Watteau. Paris, 1875: under number 540.

1978: Jean-Richard, Pierrette. Musée du Louvre. Cabinet des Dessins. Collection Edmond de Rothschild. Inventaire général des graveurs. École Français I. L'Oeuvre gravé de François Boucher... Paris, 1978, under no. 94.

1993: Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "Eighteen Drawings by Antoine Watteau: A Chronological Study." Master Drawings 31/2 (1993): 110-111, no.5.

1996: Rosenberg, Pierre and Louis-Antoine Prat. Antoine Watteau 1684-1721. Catalogue raisonné des dessins. Milan: Leonardo Editore, 1996.

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, 20-21, fig. 10.

2009: Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009: 92, fig. 1.