JEAN-ANTOINE WATTEAU* (1684-1721)

The Property of JOHN A. BLUM and the Estate of CLARA MAY BURNS

Details

JEAN-ANTOINE WATTEAU* (1684-1721)

Three Ladies in profile to the right, one seated holding reins

with inscription 'Watteaux'; red chalk
6¾ x 8 5/8in. (167 x 224mm.)

Provenance

Miss James; Christie's, 23 June 1891, lot 295 (32 to Colnaghi)
J.P. Heseltine (L. 1507); Sotheby's, 7-9 June 1920, lot ....

Literature

L. Giraud, Dessins de l'ecole français du XVIIIe siècle provenant de la collection J.P.H. (Heseltine), Paris, 1913, no. 86

K.T. Parker and J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau, Paris 1957, II, no. 639, illustrated

Lot Essay

The central figure was repeatedly adopted for La Mariée du Village at Charlottenberg, Berlin , Le Bal Champêmptre formerly in the Oréans Collection, now in French private collection , and La Musette formerly in the Steimar collection known from a print by Meyrau, E. Dacier and A. Vuaflart, Jean de Julienne et les Graveurs de Watteau au XVIIIe Siècle, Vol. IV, Paris, 1921, nos. 111, 293, 262

This drawing has been dated circa 1713