1 / 1

download image
This image is in the public domain. You can copy, modify and distribute this image, even for commercial purposes. Learn more about our image policies.

Antoine Watteau

Seated Woman Looking Down, c. 1720/1721

Not on View

Medium

red and black chalk with stumping on laid paper, laid down with later framing line in brown ink

Dimensions

overall: 21 x 14.7 cm (8 1/4 x 5 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Armand Hammer Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Rosenberg/Prat 1996, no. 667

Accession Number

1991.217.11

Artists / Makers

Antoine Watteau (artist) French, 1684 - 1721

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
Read our full Open Access policy for images .

Provenance

Phillipe Weiner, Paris; Albert Meyer (sold Seligmann Gallery exhibition, Paris May 24-June 8, 1935, no. 100); Mrs. Jesse I. Straus (née Irma S. Nathan, 1876-1970), New York, (her sale, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 21 October 1970, no. 21); to Armand Hammer Collection, 1970; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Hammer Foundation, Armand, The
Meyer, Albert
Straus, Jesse Isidor, Mrs.
Weiner, Phillipe

Exhibition History

1932: The London Exhibition of French Art, 1200-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1932, no. 713 (commem. cat. no. 765).

1970: Exhibited almost continuously with the Armand Hammer collection around the United States and abroad from late 1970 through 1987(except Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, 1971; LACMA, 1984; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1984; Albuquerque Museum, 1985; and Birmingham Museum of Art, 1985).

1978: Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1978, p. 80.

1984: Watteau, 1684-1721, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1984; Grand Palais, Paris, 1984-85; Charlottenburg Castle, Berlin, 1985, 187, 196-197, 202, 209, no. 129 (Margaret Morgan Grasselli).

1987: Master Drawings from The Armand Hammer Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, 1987, no. 18.

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 106-107, 281, no. 44 (color).

Bibliography

1875: Goncourt, Edmond de. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé d'Antoine Watteau. Paris, 1875: 297, under no. 652.

1957: Parker, K.T. and J. Mathey. Catalogue de l'oeuvre dessiné d'Antoine Watteau. Paris, 1957, 2: 312, no. 577, pl. 577.

1981: Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. Review of Paul Hulton, Watteau Drawings in the British Museum. Master Drawings 19, no. 3 (Autumn 1981): 312.

1985: Börsch-Supan, Helmut. Watteau 1684-1721: Führer zur Ausstellung im Schloss Charlottenburg. Berlin, 1985: no. 125.

1987: Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "Watteau's Use of the Trois-Crayons Technique." in Walter Strauss and Tracie Felker, eds. Drawings Defined. New York, 1987: 191, 192, fig. 15, 194 note 29.

1994: Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "News." The Watteau Society Bulletin 3 (1994): 54.

1996: Rosenberg, Pierre and Louis-Antoine Prat. Antoine Watteau 1684-1721. Catalogue raisonné des dessins. Milan: Leonardo Editore, 1996, 2: no. 667.

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, 35, reprod. 36, fig. 29.