Stephen Ongpin Fine Art
STEPHEN ONGPIN FINE ART JEAN-ANTOINE WATTEAU Valenciennes 1684-1721 Nogent-sur-Marne Studies of a Woman Spurning a Man’s Advances and a Woman Leaning Back Black chalk, graphite and red chalk, heightened with touches of white chalk, and traces of grey wash, on buff paper. 160 x 143 mm. (6 1/4 x 5 5/8 in.) Provenance Contat-Desfontaines collection, Paris Raoul Dastrac, Paris, by 1957 Mme. Roland Lacroix, née Hélène Ryaux Private collection, France Anonymous sale (‘Six Drawings by Antoine Watteau from a French Private Collection’), London, Christie’s, 6 July 1999, lot 165 Katrin Bellinger, Munich and London W. M. Brady and Co., New York Acquired from them in 2007 by Saretta Barnet, New York. Literature K. T. Parker and Jacques Mathey, Antoine Watteau: Catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné, Paris, 1957, Vol. II, p.310, no.553, fig.553 Gérard Bauer, Dessins français du dix-huitième siècle: La figure humaine, Paris, 1959, pl.14 Marianne Roland Michel, Watteau: An Artist of the Eighteenth Century, London, 1984, p.136, illustrated in colour p.143, pl.XXIX Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Antoine Watteau: Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan, 1996, Vol.II, pp.924-925, no.546 ‘Six Drawings by Antoine Watteau from a French Private Collection (Lots 165-170). Watteau and his Collectors’, in London, Christie’s, Old Master Drawings, 6 July 1999, p.159 Katherine Baetjer, ed., Watteau, Music, and Theater, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2009, pp.76-77, no.27 (entry by Perrin Stein). Exhibited Paris, Galerie Cailleux, Le dessin français de Watteau à Prudhon, 1951, no.163 Paris, Galerie Cailleux, Watteau et sa génération, 1968, no.58 New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Watteau, Music, and Theater, 2009, no.27.
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