Two Studies of a Violinist Tuning His Instrument, 1717/1718

Provenance

Jacques Doucet [1853-1929], Paris (his sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 5 June 1912, no. 64); Sir Geoge Donaldson; private collection, Paris, 1931; Howard Sturges [d. 1955], New York, by 1950; gift 1956 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1972

French Master Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries in North American Collections. Toronto and tour, 1972-73, no. 154, fig. 72 (Pierre Rosenberg).

1974

French 18th and 19th Century Drawings. The Phillips Collection, Washington, 1974 (no cat.).

1978

Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, pp. 78-79.

1984

Watteau, 1684-1721. National Gallery of Art, Washington: Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin. Washington, 1984-1985, 156, 181-182, 361-362, fig. 7, no. 104.

2009

Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 100-101, 280, no. 41.

Bibliography

1904

Tourneux, Maurice. "La collection M. Jacques Doucet: Pastels et dessins." Les Arts 36 (December 1904): 4, 20, 22.

1910

Guiffrey, Jean and Pierre Marcel, Société de Reproduction des Dessins de Maîtres. Paris, 1910: unnumbered.

1921

Bouyer, Raymond. "Watteau et la musique." Revue de l'Art ancien et moderne 40 (July/August 1921): 26.

1931

Parker, K.T. The Drawings of Antoine Watteau. London, 1931: 31, 44, no. 38.

1950

Shoolman, Regina, and Charles Slatkin. Six Centuries of French Master Drawings in America. Oxford and New York, 1950: 52, pl. 30.

1957

Parker, K.T. and J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau, catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné. 2 vols. Paris, 1957, 2: no. 850 (the corresponding plate incorrectly labeled 849).

1963

Börsch-Supan, Helmut. La peinture française du XVIIIe siècle à la cour de Frédéric II. Exh. cat. Palais du Louvre, Paris, 1963: under no. 33.

1984

Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 675, no. 1077, color repro., as The Violin Player.

1985

Börsch-Supan, Helmut. Watteau 1684-1721: Führer zur Ausstellung im Schloss Charlottenburg. Berlin, 1985: no. 69.

1996

Rosenberg, Pierre and Louis-Antoine Prat. Antoine Watteau 1684-1721. Catalogue raisonné des dessins. Milan: Leonardo Editore, 1996, 2: no. 594.

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