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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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