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    Two Studies of a Dancer, Raising Her Skirt in Her Two Hands
    Jean-Antoine Watteau. Two Studies of a Dancer, Raising Her Skirt in Her Two Hands, 1712/13. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00005829

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    Two Studies of a Dancer, Raising Her Skirt in Her Two Hands

    by Jean-Antoine Watteau

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed, lower left, in brown ink: "Wattau"

    Provenance

    Marie Joseph François Mahérault (1795-1879); sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 27-29, 1880, Mahérault sale, lot 289. Léon Michel-Lévy (1846-1925); sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 17-18, 1925, Michel-Lévy sale, lot 117, to Dewur [annotated sale catalogue]. Possibly Mrs. John Dewar, London [it is possible that the name in the annotated sale catalogue was spelled phonetically]. Mme. Firino-Martel, Paris, by 1957 [Parker and Mathey 1957]. Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 18, 1991, lot 5. Sold, Bordeaux, December 17, 1992. Sold by Galerie de la Scala to the Art Institute, 2002.

    Exhibition history

    Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "Watteau, 1684-1721," June 17-September 23, 1984, pp. 81, 337 (ill.), and 339; traveled to Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, October 23, 1984-January 28, 1985; and Berlin, Château de Charlottenbourg, February 22-May 26, 1985. Art Institute of Chicago, "Master Drawings Unveiled: 25 Years of Major Acquisitions," August 27, 2016–January 29, 2017, no cat.

    Publications

    Edmond de Goncourt, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé d'Antoine Watteau (Paris, 1875), p. 345. K.T. Parker and J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau, catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné, 1 (Paris, 1957), no. 29 (ill.). Donald Posner, Antoine Watteau (London, 1984), pp. 258 and 290, note 56. Margaret Morgan Grasselli, The Drawings of Antoine Watteau: Stylistic Development and Problems of Chronology (Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1987), p. 36, note 27, pp. 181-82, 193 and 215, no. 91, fig. 178. Pierre Rosenberg and Louis Antoine Prat, Antoine Watteau, catalogue raisonné des dessins, 1 (Milan, 1996), pp. 292-93, no. 185 (ill.). Galerie de la Scala, Dessins et Tableaux 1500-1900 (Paris, 2001), n.p., no. 8 (ill.). Art and Antiques 25:10 (November 2002), p. 87 (ill.).

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Jean Antoine Watteau / French, 1684-1721
    Date
    1712/13
    Medium
    Red chalk on cream laid paper
    Dimensions
    17.6 × 13.3 cm (6 15/16 × 5 1/4 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    chalk
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Regenstein Collection Endowment
    Accession no.
    2002.100

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