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Study of a female figure, standing (recto)
Study of a park (verso)

Maker

(artist)
1684-1721

Title

Study of a female figure, standing (recto)
Study of a park (verso)

Date of Production

1709 - 1713

Medium

red chalk with black ink framing lines (recto), red chalk with intrusive remnants of white adhesive from having been formerly laid down (verso), on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 12.8 cm
Width: 8.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.418

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

T. Grange (according to an unclear note in Seilern's hand - is this the collector T.P. Grange?); acquired from him by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 23 November 1964 (£1,200); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

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. 28 on p. 50
ill. on p. 51 (recto and verso)
dated 1709-10

Grasselli, Margaret Morgan, 'Eighteen Drawings by Antoine Watteau: A Chronological Study' in 'Master Drawings', Summer 1993 - pp. 103-27; 31, 2
no. 6 on pp. 111-12
fig. 8 (recto), fig. 10 (verso)
dated c. 1712-13

Grasselli, Margaret Morgan, The drawings of Antoine Watteau: stylistic development and problems of chronology, Ann Arbor 1987
pp. 230-31, 463, no. 84
figs. 269 and 270 ...More

Seilern, Count Antoine, Recent Acquisitions at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1971; VI
no. 418
pls. XXIXa and b
dated 1712 or slightly earlier

France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1967-1968 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, upper right corner, fragment: edge of a circle, too fragmentary to see what it might contain.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: none.

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