Provenance
Probably Charles Gasc (L.544), Paris, c. 1850; (Vente L. Tabourier, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 20-22 June 1898, no. 144); Richard S. Owen, Paris; purchased 1937 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1963 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1984
- Watteau, 1684-1721. National Gallery of Art and tour, 1984-85, 99-102, no. 36 (Margaret Morgan Grasselli).
- 1999
- "Watteau and His World: French Drawings from 1700 to 1750", The Frick Collection, New York; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1999-2000, no. 44a, 44b (Alan Wintermute).
- 2009
- Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 104-105, 281, no. 43 (color; recto and verso).
Bibliography
- 1875
- Goncourt, Edmond de. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé d'Antoine Watteau. Paris, 1875: under no. 572.
- 1957
- Parker, K.T. and J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau, catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné. 2 vols. Paris, 1957, 2: no. 781.
- 1977
- Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. London, 1977: 300, dK505, fig. 265.
- 1978
- Jean-Richard, Pierrette. Musée du Louvre. Cabinet des Dessins. Collection Edmond de Rothschild. Inventaire général des graveurs. École Français I. L'Oeuvre gravé de François Boucher... Paris, 1978, 51, under no. 101 (verso).
- 1984
- Opperman, Hal. "The Countenance of Watteau." unpublished manuscript, 1984: 50.
- 1984
- Roland Michel, Marianne. Watteau. Un artiste au XVIIIe siècle. Paris and London, 1984: 87-88, 253, 277 note 33.
- 1984
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 675, no. 1078, color repro. (recto only).
- 1985
- Börsch-Supan, Helmut. Watteau 1684-1721: Führer zur Ausstellung im Schloss Charlottenburg. Berlin, 1985: no. 84.
- 1987
- Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "New Observations on Some Watteau Drawings." in François Moureau and Margaret Morgan Grasselli, eds., Antoine Watteau (1684-1721): The Painter, His Age and His Legend. Papers from the colloquium held in Paris in 1984. Paris, 1987: 99-100, fig. 10 (recto) and fig, 12 (verso).
- 1987
- Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "The Drawings of Antoine Watteau: stylistic development and problems of chronology." 3 vols. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1987: 240 n. 10, 410 n. 55, 427-428, no. 257, figs. 519 (recto) and 520 (verso).
- 1987
- Roland Michel, Marianne. "Watteau et les Figures de différents caractères." In François Moureau and Margaret Morgan Grasselli, eds., Antoine Watteau (1684-1721): The Painter, His Age and His Legend. Papers from the colloquium held in Paris in 1984. Paris, 1987: 119 note 2.
- 1996
- Rosenberg, Pierre and Louis-Antoine Prat. Antoine Watteau 1684-1721. Catalogue raisonné des dessins. Milan: Leonardo Editore, 1996, 2: no. 620.
- 1998
- Sotheby's New York, sale cat., 21 May 1998, 166, under lot 125, fig. 2.
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