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Study of two men sitting and leaning on a wall (formerly 'Sheet of Studies with Two Comedians (Crispins?)')

Maker

(artist)
1684-1721

Title

Study of two men sitting and leaning on a wall (formerly 'Sheet of Studies with Two Comedians (Crispins?)')

Date of Production

(circa) 1713 - 1714

Medium

red chalk on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines partially trimmed away

Dimensions

Height: 15.9 cm
Width: 11 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.218

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords







Provenance

Maître Wateau, Paris (dealer?) (according to Parker-Mathey 1957); private collection, USA (according to Burchard); W. Burchard Art Gallery (London), by February 1956 (letter in file); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 24 March 1956 (£1150); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 04/07/1991-06/10/1991

The Princes Gate Collection - Drawings (Selection B), The Courtauld Gallery, London, 29/01/1982-25/07/1982

France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 06/01/1968-03/03/1968

Literature

Rosenberg, Pierre and Louis-Antoine Prat, Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721: catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan 1996
vol. 1, no. 199
ill. on p. 317
dated c. 1713-14

French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1991
cat. no. 48
p. 106
ill. on p. 107
dated c. 1703/6-1707/8

Grasselli, Margaret Morgan, The drawings of Antoine Watteau: stylistic development and problems of chronology, Ann Arbor 1987
pp. 36n27 and 272n54 ...More

Watteau, 1684-1721, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Château de Charlottenbourg, Berlin, 1984-1985
p. 304 under no. 25
fig. 7 on p. 302

Rosenberg, 1984-85
pp. 303-04
fig. 10
need TK bibliography in Rosenberg-Prat 1996 exh. cat. to get full title

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

Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 218

Cormack, Malcolm, The drawings of Watteau, London 1970
p. 35, no. 84
pl. 84

France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1967-1968
cat. no. 735

Seilern, Count Antoine, Paintings and drawings of Continental Schools other than Flemish and Italian at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1961; III
no. 218
pl. XLIII
dated c. 1708-09

Parker, K.T. and Jacques Mathey, Antoine Watteau: catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné, Paris 1957
vol. I, no. 86
pl. 86 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, upper right corner, fragment: imperial crown from top of a coat-of-arms (tracing in file).

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Verso: lower right, graphite: a scribble (a paraphe? not found on Lugt), described as an "M" or "W" in the 1991 exh. cat.

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