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Antoine Watteau
1684-1721
A River Landscape
Red chalk on paper.
7 3/8 x 11 3/4 inches (188 x 299 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
I, 277
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Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscription:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, at lower left, "2"; at lower right, "a/r".
Provenance:
Richard Houlditch, London (Lugt 2214); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.
Associated names:
Houlditch, Richard, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography:
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, no. 277, repr.
Denison, Cara D. French Drawings, 1550-1825. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, no. 38.
Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, "Antoine Watteau 1684-1721, Catalogue raisonné des dessins", 3 vols., Milan, 1996, III, no. R392, p. 1250, repr.
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