A Comic Actor Dressed as a Gentleman [recto], c. 1729

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Medium

red chalk on 2 joined sheets of laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 22.9 x 23.2 cm (9 x 9 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Neil and Ivan Phillips

Accession Number

1996.25.1.a

Artists / Makers

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater (artist) French, 1695 - 1736

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, center right in graphite, erased: 24 / 20 / 10 / 120

Provenance

Camille Groult [1837-1908]; (sale, Paris, 18 December 1941, lot 39);[1] Jacques Mathey, Paris, by 1957; (sale, New York, Christie's, 10 January 1996, lot 198); purchased by NGA, 1996.

[1] Provenance in Christie's 10 January 1996 sale catalogue indicates this was lot 39 in a Paris sale on 18 December 1941. Research has uncovered only one Hotel Drouot sale on that date, and lot 39 in that sale catalogue does not correspond in title, dimensions nor medium. There is nothing in the object file to clarify this discrepancy.

Associated Names

Christie's
Drouot, Hôtel
Groult, Camille

Bibliography

1957: Parker, K.T. and J. Mathey. Antoine Watteau. Paris, 1957: I no. 204 (verso, illustrated as by Watteau).

1993: Grasselli, M. Morgan. "Eighteen Drawings by Antoine Watteau: A Chronological Study." Master Drawings, XXXI (1993): 126, under note 13 (as not by Watteau).