Inscription
by later hand, lower right in brown ink: Vataux fec. (crossed out); by later hand, lower left in graphite: Watteau.
Provenance
Anonymous sale, (Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 28 May 1892, no. 72); Lallemand (sale, Paris, 2 May 1894); Léon Michel-Lévy [1846-1925] (his sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 17-18 June 1925, no. 106); George Blumenthal [1858-1941], New York (his sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 1-2 December 1932, no. 48); (Jean Seligmann). [1] Mrs. Jesse I. Straus [née Irma S. Nathan, 1876-1970], New York, (her sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, 21 October 1970, no. 20); Armand Hammer Collection, Los Angeles, 1970; gift to NGA, 1991.
Exhibition History
- 1932
- The London Exhibition of French Art, 1200-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1932, no. 738 (commem. cat. no. 780).
- 1935
- Master Drawings Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America. Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery. Buffalo, 1935, no. 60.
- 1970
- Exhibited with the Armand Hammer collection from 1970, starting with Arkansas Art Center; except Tenn. Fine Arts Ctr. at Cheekwood, Nashville, 1976; LACMA, 1984; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1984; Albuquerque Museum, 1985; and Birmingham Museum of Art, 1985
- 1974
- Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1974, no. 71.
- 1976
- Old Master Drawings from American Collections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976, no. 149 (Ebria Feinblatt).
- 1978
- Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1978, p. 79.
- 1984
- Watteau, 1684-1721, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1984; Grand Palais, Paris, 1984-85; Charlottenburg Castle, Berlin, 1985. Washington, 1984, 109, 150, 379-380, fig. 2, no. 79 (Margaret Morgan Grasselli).
- 1987
- Master Drawings from The Armand Hammer Collection. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1987, no. 17.
- 2009
- Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 98-99, 280, no. 40 (color).
Bibliography
- 1905
- Fourcaud, Louis de. "Antoine Watteau: Scènes et Figures Galantes." La Revue de l'art ancien et moderne 17, no. 95 (February 1905): 106.
- 1911
- Les Maîtres du dessin. Paris, 1911: vol. 3, plate 136.
- 1928
- Réau, Louis. "Watteau." In Les Peintres français au XVIIIe siècle by Louis Dimier. Paris and Brussels, 1928: 54, no. 38.
- 1931
- Parker, K. T. The Drawings of Antoine Watteau. London, 1931 (reprinted 1970): 39, 49, no. 92, pl. 92.
- 1932
- Eisenstadt, Mussia. "The Drawings of Antoine Watteau." Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 1(1932): 239-240 (as Mercier).
- 1932
- Parker, K.T. "Mercier, Angélis and De Bar." Old Master Drawings 7 (December 1932): 38 note 8.
- 1950
- Adhémar, Hélène and René Huyghe. Watteau, sa vie, son oeuvre. Paris, 1950: under no. 170.
- 1957
- Parker, K. T., and Jacques Mathey. Catalogue de l'oeuvre dessiné d'Antoine Watteau. Paris, 1957, 2: 326, no. 665 (with incorrect dimensions).
- 1962
- Mongan, Agnes. Great Drawings of all Time, French: 13th Century to 1919. Edited by Ira Moskowitz. New York, 1962, 3: no. 686.
- 1972
- White, Christopher. "The Hammer Collection: Drawings." Apollo 95, no. 124 (June 1972): 460, fig. 6.
- 1973
- Zolotov, Youri et al. Antoine Watteau. Catalogues raisonnés des tableaux et des dessins dans les musées russes. Leningrad, 1973: 139, under no. 6 (1985 ed.: 98, under nos. 8-11).
- 1984
- Posner, Donald. Antoine Watteau. Ithaca, 1984: 208, 288 notes 18, 19, fig. 166.
- 1984
- The Watteau Society Bulletin, 1984, no. 1, p. 43.
- 1984
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 675, no. 1079, color repro. (as Couple Seated on a Bank).
- 1985
- Börsch-Supan, Helmut. Watteau 1684-1721: Führer zur Ausstellung im Schloss Charlottenburg. Berlin, 1985: no. 91.
- 1985
- Nochlin, Linda. "Watteau: some questions of interpretation." Art in America 73, no. 1 (January 1985): 80.
- 1987
- Boerlin-Brodbeck, Yvonne. "La Figure assise dans un paysage." in François Moureau and Margaret Morgan Grasselli, eds. Antoine Watteau (1684-1721): The Painter, His Age and His Legend. Colloquy papers from the colloquium held in Paris in 1984. Paris and Geneva, 1987: 163 note 2.
- 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. Colloquy papers from the colloquium held in Paris in 1984. Paris and Geneva, 1987: 96 note 8.
- 1987
- Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "The Drawings of Antoine Watteau: stylistic development and problems of chronology." 3 vols. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1987: 1:188; 2:272-273, 290 n. 72, 504, no. 193; 3: fig. 329.
- 1987
- Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "Watteau's Use of the Trois-Crayons Technique." In Walter Strauss and Tracie Felker, eds. Drawings Defined. New York, 1987: 181, 183, fig. 3. 189, 194 note 24.
- 1989
- Ingamells, John. The Wallace Collection. Catalogue of Pictures. Vol. 3, French before 1815. London, 1989: 351.
- 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: 792, no. 475.
- 1997
- Richler, Martha. National Gallery of Art, Washington: A World of Art. London, 1997: 85-87, fig. 4.
- 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: 29-31, fig. 21.
- 2001
- Mittler, Gene A. and James D. Howze. Creating and Understanding Drawings. New York, 2001: 219, fig. 11.18.
- 2010
- Stein, Perrin. "French Drawings, Washington," The Burlington Magazine 102 (January 2010): 66, 67, fig. 85.
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