Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)

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Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)

A Woman, seen from behind, with her left arm extended

red chalk, watermark fragmentary circle
129 x 92mm.

Provenance

J. Groult; Paris, 19 Dec. 1941, part of lot 18 (as Quillard)
Anon. sale, Christie's, 2 July 1985, lot 99, illustrated (#5,500)

Literature

K.T. Parker and J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau, Catalogue Complet de son Oeuvre Dessiné, Paris, 1957, I, no. 20, illustrated

Exhibited

Paris, Gallerie Cailleux, 1951, no. 161

Engraved

J. Audran, Figures de différent caractères, 1735, no. 320

Lot Essay

As Margaret Morgan Grasselli kindly points out the figure appears, with a change in the position of the left arm, to the left of the dancing couple, in Watteau's L'Accordée de Village in the Soane Museum. On the basis of a photograph Morgan Grasselli suggests a date of 1712-13

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