The March of Silenus [recto], c. 1715/1716

Not on View

Medium

red, black, and white chalks on brown laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 15.6 x 21.1 cm (6 1/8 x 8 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Shepard Morgan to honor Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Curator of Old Master Drawings, and in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Catalogue Raisonné

Rosenberg/Prat 1996, no. 838, State R

Accession Number

1991.22.1.a

Artists / Makers

Antoine Watteau (artist) French, 1684 - 1721

Image Use

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Provenance

De Wailly, Paris; (sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 17-18 February 1853, no. 159); Baron Louis Auguste de Schwiter [1805-1889] (Lugt 1768) (his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 20-21 April 1883, no. 174); Henri Michel-Lévy (his sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 12-13 May 1919, no. 135); Mme. Piez, Paris, by 1957; (Colnaghi, London, 1959); private collection, Great Britain; (sale Monte Carlo, Sotheby's, 11 February 1979, no. 51); Mr. and Mrs. Paul Shepard Morgan, Duxbury, MA; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
Morgan, Paul S., Mr. and Mrs.
Schwiter, Louis Auguste, Baron de

Exhibition History

1984: Watteau, 1684-1721, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1984; Grand Palais, Paris, 1984-85; Charlottenburg Castle, Berlin, 1985; no. 131.

1991: NGA Anniversary, 1991, 84.

2014: Rubens and His Legacy: From Van Dyck to Cézanne, BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2014-2015, no. 59, repro.

Bibliography

1957: Parker, K.T. and J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau, catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné. 2 vols. Paris, 1957: I, no. 259.

1984: Roland Michel, Marianne. Watteau. Un artiste au XVIIIe siècle. Paris and London, 1984: 231.

1986: Eidelberg, Martin P. Review of "Antoine Watteau 1684-1721." Master Drawings 22-24(1986): 103-104.

1987: Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "The Drawings of Antoine Watteau: stylistic development and problems of chronology." 3 vols. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1987: 408-411, no. 159, fig. 502 (recto), fig. 503 (verso).

1987: Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "Watteau's Use of the Trois-Crayons Technique." in Drawings Defined. New York, 1987: 189-191, fig. 13.

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

1998: Roland Michel, Marianne. "The Rosenberg-Prat catalogue of Watteau's drawings," The Burlington Magazine 140, Nov. 1998: 754, R.838 (supporting attrib. to Watteau).

2001: Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. Review of Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Antoine Watteau 1684-1721. Catalouge raisonné des dessins. Master Drawings 39, no. 3, 2001, 331.