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JEAN-ANTOINE WATTEAU (VALENCIENNES 1684-1721 NOGENT-SUR-MARNE)

Lot 18
20.10.2022 18:00UTC -05:00
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$ 3 420 000
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ID 819751
Lot 18 | JEAN-ANTOINE WATTEAU (VALENCIENNES 1684-1721 NOGENT-SUR-MARNE)
Estimate value
$ 1 500 000 – 2 500 000
JEAN-ANTOINE WATTEAU (VALENCIENNES 1684-1721 NOGENT-SUR-MARNE)

Three head studies of a girl wearing a hat

black and red chalk, graphite, watermark with letters ‘[…OA…ENE]’

5 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. (14 x 24.7 cm.)





Provenance

Private collection, Switzerland.

with Eugene V. Thaw & Co., New York.

John R. Gaines (1929-2005), Kentucky; Sotheby’s, New York, 17 November 1986, lot 22.

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.



Literature

E. de Goncourt, Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, dessiné et gravé d’Antoine Watteau, Paris, 1875, p. 272, under no. 518, and p. 290, under no. 622.

K.T. Parker and J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau, Paris, 1957, no. 717, ill.

M. Roland Michel, Watteau. Un Artiste au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1984, p. 335.

M.M. Grasselli, The Drawings of Antoine Watteau. Stylistic Development and Problems of Chronology, Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1987, I, no. 203, II, fig. 278.

M.M. Grasselli, ‘News’, Watteau Society Bulletin, III, 1994, p. 56, ill.

P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721. Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan, 1994, II, no. 438, ill.

C. Bailey, ‘Books in review: Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721. Catalogue raisonné des dessins’, On Paper, I, no. 5, May-June 1997, p. 46, fig. 5.

H. Wine, ‘Watteau. London’, The Burlington Magazine, CLIII, no. 133, July 2001, pp. 89-90, fig. 55.

L.-A. Prat, ‘Trente ans et des poussières. Une vue cavalière du marché du dessin’, Revue de l’art, CXLIII, 2004, p. 93, fig. 6.

E. Lajer-Burcharth, ‘Drawing Time’, October, CLI, Winter 2015, p. 18, ill.

L.-A. Prat, Le Dessin français au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 2017, p. 54, fig. 84.



Exhibited

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Antoine Watteau. The Drawings, 2011, no. 53, ill., and p. 24 (catalogue by P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat).
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