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A Bewigged Painter (Possibly Claude Audran), Seated at his Easel, Seen in Profile
Provenance
Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine (died 1830); Martin Norblin de la Gourdaine (died 1854). The Baronne de Conantré, 1875 [Goncourt 1875]; by descent to her daughter, The Baronne de Rublé; by descent to her daughter, Mme. De Witte; by descent to her daughter, the Marquise de Bryas, Orange; sold to Galerie Cailleux, Paris, by 1959 [a conversation with Marianne Roland-Michel of Galerie Cailleux]. William H. Schab, New York, 1961 [invoice]. Otto Schäfer, Schweinfurt, Germany [invoice]. Sold, Sotheby's, London, July 7, 1999, lot 54 to Spink-Leger Gallery, London; sold to the Art Institute, 1999.
Publications
Virgile Josz, Watteau: moeurs du XVIIIe siècle (Paris, 1903), p. 243, note 1. Marianne Roland-Michel, Watteau: un artiste au XVIIIe siècle (Paris and London, 1984), p. 26, fig. 10. Marianne Roland-Michel, Le dessin français au XVIIIe siècle (Fribourg, 1987), p. 96, fig. 92. Lowell Libson, Head and Shoulders (London, 1999) (ill.). Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “Maineri to Miró: The Regenstein Collection since 1975,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), pp. 36-37, no. 11 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean Antoine Watteau / French, 1684-1721
- Date
- c. 1709
- Medium
- Red chalk on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
- Dimensions
- 20.1 × 13.4 cm (7 15/16 × 5 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- The Regenstein Collection
- Accession no.
- 1999.682
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