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Antoine Watteau

The Bower, c. 1716

Not on View

Medium

red chalk and red chalk counterproof on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 40.2 x 26.8 cm (15 13/16 x 10 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Rosenberg/Prat 1996, no. 234

Accession Number

1982.72.1

Artists / Makers

Antoine Watteau (artist) French, 1684 - 1721

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Provenance

Edmond (1822-1896) and Jules (1830-1870) De Goncourt (Lugt 1089), Paris; (their sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 15-17 February 1897, no. 349); purchased (via Brenot) by Camille Groult (1837-1908); by inheritance to his son, Jean Groult (1868-1951); by inheritance to his son, Pierre Bordeaux-Groult; (sale, Paris, Palais d'Orsay, 14 December 1979); private collection; purchased (via Wildenstein and Co., New York) by NGA, 1982.

Associated Names

Goncourt, Edmond de
Goncourt, Jules de
Groult, Camille
Groult, Jean
Wildenstein & Co., Inc.

Exhibition History

1983: Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., February 1983.

1984: Watteau, 1684-1721. National Gallery of Art, Washington and tour, 1984-1985, no. 70 (Margaret Morgan Grasselli).

1990: Gardens on Paper, Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1990, no. 82 (Virginia Tuttle Clayton).

1999: "Watteau and His World: French Drawings from 1700 to 1750", The Frick Collection, New York; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1999-2000, no. 9 (Alan Wintermute).

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 96-97, 280, 2009, no. 39 (color).

Bibliography

1875: Goncourt, Edmond de. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé d'Antoine Watteau. Paris, 1875: 210.

1908: Fourcaud, L. de. "Antoine Watteau, peintre d'arabesques." Revue de l'Art Ancien et Moderne 24, no. 141 (December 1908): 439, note 1; vol. 25, no. 143 (February 1909): 131, note 2.

1913: Deshairs, L. "Les Arabesques de Watteau." Archives de l'Art Français. nouvelle serie 7(1913): 292.

1922: Dacier, E. and A. Vuaflart, Jean de Jullienne et les graveurs de Watteau au XVIIIe siécle.Paris, 1922, 2: 105; 3: 16, under no. 25.

1930: Parker, K.T. "The Drawings of Antoine Watteau in the British Museum." Old Master Drawings 5 (June 1930): 8, pl. 7.

1931: Parker, K.T. The Drawings of Antoine Watteau. London, 1931: 19 and note 1.

1950: Adhémar, Hélène and René Huyghe. Watteau--sa vie, son oeuvre. Paris, 1950: 204, under no. 25.

1957: Parker, K.T. and J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau, catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné. 2 vols. Paris, 1957, 1: no. 192.

1959: Mathey, J. Antoine Watteau. Peintures réapparues, inconnues ou négligées par les historiens... Paris, 1959: 45.

1970: Cormack, Malcolm. The Drawings of Watteau. London, 1970: 9, 20, no. 7.

1971: Zolotov, Youri. Antoine Watteau. Textes anciens. Moscow, 1971: opposite p. 54.

1984: Eidelberg, Martin P. "Gabriel Huquier. Friend or Foe of Watteau." The Print Collector's Newsletter 15 (November-December, 1984): 158, 164 note 8.

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: 118, 128, 284.

1985: Börsch-Supan, Helmut. Watteau 1684-1721: Führer zur Ausstellung im Schloss Charlottenburg. Berlin, 1985: no. 56.

1985: Piché, Maurice. "Le Génie inventif de Watteau." Vie des Arts 29 (March 1985): 22.

1985: Sutton, Denys. "Antoine Watteau: Enigmatic Ironist." Apollo 121, no. 277 (March 1985): 150, pl. 1.

1986: Eidelberg, Martin P. Review of "Antoine Watteau 1684-1721." Master Drawings 22-24 (1986): 105.

1987: Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "The Drawings of Antoine Watteau: stylistic development and problems of chronology." 3 vols. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1987: 303-304, 409-410, no. 186, fig. 376.

1988: Opperman, Hal. Review of "Antoine Watteau 1684-1721." The Art Bulletin 20 (June 1988): 359.

1989: Fuhring, Peter. Design into Art: Drawings for Architecture and Ornaments, The Lodewijk Houthakker Collection. 2 vols. London and The Hague, 1989, 1: 74, under no. 52.

1991: Launay, Elizabeth. Les Frères Goncourt, collectionneurs de dessins. Paris, 1991: 375, pl. 10, fig. 31.

1993: Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "Eighteen Drawings by Antoine Watteau. A Chronological Study." Master Drawings 31 (1993): 126 note 12.

1996: Rosenberg, Pierre and Louis-Antoine Prat. Antoine Watteau 1684-1721. Catalogue raisonné des dessins. Milan: Leonardo Editore, 1996, 1: no. 224.