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Antoine Watteau
1684-1721
Thirteen Figure Sketches
Red chalk on paper.
9 5/16 x 13 7/16 inches (236 x 342 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
I, 278
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This drawing is on the recto of Watteau's "Landscape" (Acc. No. III, 90).
Formerly attributed to Claude Gillot.
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Watermark: Gauntlet with four-petaled flower; letters "R", "G" and heart in cartouche.
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Tiffin and Riggall (according to Parker and Mathey); 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.
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Associated names:
Gillot, Claude, 1673-1722, Formerly attributed to.
Tiffin, former owner.
Riggall, Edward, 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. 278, repr.
Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, "Antoine Watteau 1684-1721, Catalogue raisonné des dessins", 3 vols., Milan, 1996, I, no. 18, p. 32, recto and verso repr.
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