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Three studies of a soldier
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1684-1721
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Width: 20.4 cm
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Exhibition History
Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, Colnaghi, London, 18/04/1950-26/05/1950
Literature
pp. 48. 54
fig. 25 and on p. 80
dated c. 1710
Rosenberg, Pierre and Louis-Antoine Prat, Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721: catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan 1996
vol. I, no. 59
ill. on p. 93
as Watteau, dated c. 1709-10?
Munhall, 1992
pp. 14-15, 32n33, 33n35
fig. 2
need TK Rosenberg-Prat 1996 cat. rais. to get full title ...More
French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1991
cat. no. 49
p. 108
ill. on p. 109
Sotheby's, London, Old Master paintings, 12 Dec. 1990
under lot 7
Grasselli, Margaret Morgan, The drawings of Antoine Watteau: stylistic development and problems of chronology, Ann Arbor 1987
pp. 97-98, no. 28
fig. 81
Roland Michel, translated by Richard Wrigley, additional translation by Jennifer Wanklyn, Watteau, an artist of the eighteenth century, New York and London 1984
pp. 95-97, 250
fig. 61
Posner, Donald, Antoine Watteau, Ithaca 1984
pp. 40, 279n43
Braham, Helen, The Princes Gate Collection [all Princes Gate works, the exhibited drawings listed separately as Selection A and Selection B], London, 1981
Appendix III, p. 141
Cormack, Malcolm, The drawings of Watteau, London 1970
pp. 12, 20, no. 9
pl.9
Seilern, Count Antoine, Paintings and drawings of Continental Schools other than Flemish and Italian at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1961; III
no. 217
pl. XLII
dated c. 1704-08
Cailleux, 1959
n.p.
need TK bibliography of Rosenberg-Prat 1996 cat. rais.
Parker, K.T. and Jacques Mathey, Antoine Watteau: catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné, Paris 1957
vol. I, p. 37, no. 248
as Watteau
Parker, K.T., The drawings of Antoine Watteau, 1931
p. 17n4
Goncourt, Edmond, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé d'Antoine Watteau, Paris 1875
under nos. 457, 498, 618 ...Less
Inscriptions
Label: Former backboard, now removed and in the object file: printed label from Colnaghi, listing their address as at 14 Old Bond Street, and added in black ink ""THREE SOLDIERS." / RED CHALK DRAWING BY ANTOINE WATTEAU. / (1684-1721)", below that in graphite "Red chalk 5 5/8 : 7 15/16" and at left centre in black ink and a different hand: "From the / Desfontaines / Collection."; printed label cut from Colnaghi's 1950 exhibition catalogue: "Engraved by J. Audran in Figures de différents / Caractères / (Recueil Julienne), Nos. 95, 127 and 241. / The soldier in the centre also occurs in Watteau's picture, / La Porte de Valenciennes, which was No. 192 of the Doucet / Sale, Paris, June, 1912. / On these soldier subjects, which are among Watteau's / earliest works, see K.T. Parker, The Drawings of Antoine / Watteau, 1931, p. 17, where this drawing is referred to / (footnote 4) as one of very few examples in which all three / figures on the sheet were engraved.".
Inscription: Verso (hidden under backing sheet): upper right edge, red chalk: “V”.
Collector's mark: none.
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