Circle of Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)

Head of a bearded soldier turned to the right, after Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Details

Circle of Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)
Head of a bearded soldier turned to the right, after Sir Peter Paul Rubens
red chalk
158 x 133 mm.

Provenance

Daniel Saint.
M. Norblin de la Gourdaine; Drouot, Paris, 5 February 1855, part of lot 255 or 256.
E. Norblin; Drouot, Paris, 30 January 1863, lot 61 (16 francs).
H. Michel-Lévy; galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 12-13
May 1919, lot 141 (as Watteau, 500 francs à Féral).

Literature

K.T. Parker and J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau, catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné, Paris, 1957, I, no. 275.
P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan, 1996, III, no. R233.

Lot Essay

After a figure on the left of Rubens' Saint Ambrose et l'Empereur Théodose now in Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum. A drawing of the same subject, from the studio of Vleughels is now in the Louvre, P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, op. cit., fig. R233a.

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