Three Studies of Seated Women

Edmond de Goncourt, Catalogue Raisonné de l’Oeuvre Peint, Dessiné et Gravé d’Antoine Watteau (Paris, 1875), no. 50.

sold, Squibb, London, April 13-15, 1815, lot 132. William Esdaile (died 1837) [Lugt 2617]

London, South Kensington Museum, "Twenty-Six Drawings by Watteau," 1878, cat. 2.

John Spencer (died 1746)

by descent to his daughter, Sarah Ann James, London

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Watteau, Music, and Theater,” 9/22/09–11/29/09, p. 74 and 75, cat. #42, cat. by Katherine Baetjer et al

by descent to George John (died 1834), the second Earl Spencer [Lugt 1530]

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Watteau, Music, and Theater,” September 22–November 29, 2009, p. 75 and 74, cat. # 26, cat. by Georgia J. Cowart et. al.

Suzanne McCullagh, "Never Dormant: Drawings in Chicago," Master Drawings (2000).

Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “ ‘A Lasting Monument’: The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 26:1 (2000), pp. 5-15, fig. 1.

Karl Theodor Parker and Jacques Mathey, Antoine Watteau, Catalogue Complet de son Oeuvre Dessiné (Paris, 1957), no. 831 (ill.).

by descent to his son, Jean Groult (died 1951)

sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 28-29, 1894, lot 45. Camille Groult (died 1908)

sold, Christie’s, London, June 18, 1840, lot 1242. Andrew James (died before 1857)

New York, Frick Collection, "Watteau and His World: French Drawing from 1700-1750," October 19, 1999-January 9, 2000, cat. 31, cat. by Alan Wintermute, et al.; traveled to Ottawa, the National Gallery of Canada, February 11-May 8, 2000.

sold, Christie’s, London, June 22-23, 1891, lot 338, to Wertheimer [according to Rosenberg and Prat 1996]. H. A. Josse

Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721: Catalogue Raisonné des Dessins (Milan, 1996), pp. 908-09, no. 538 (ill.).

by descent to his son, Pierre Bordeaux-Groult [according to Rosenberg and Prat 1996]. Sold by Wildenstein and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1958.

sold, Philips, London, June 10-17, 1811, lot 822 to Edward Coxe, London [according to Rosenberg and Prat 1996]

Marianne Roland-Michel, Le Dessin Français au XVIII Siècle (Fribourg, 1987), p. 183 (ill.).

Margaret Morgan Grasselli, The Watteau Society Bulletin, 2 (1985), p. 44.

Marianne Roland-Michel, Watteau (Paris, 1984), p. 78 (ill.).

Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1977), p. 58, no. 2G5.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," January 24-March 28, 1976, pp. 42-43, cat. 28 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 56-57, cat. 27 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.

Hugh Edwards, “Two Drawings by Antoine Watteau,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 1 (1966), p. 9.