A female nude, half-length, leaning forward, her arms before her breasts

細節

Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)
A female nude, half-length, leaning forward, her arms before her breasts
with inscription 'Watteau' (recto) and 'Antoine Watteau' (verso, laid down)
red chalk, the back of the figure made up at the right
5 5/8 x 6¾ in. (143 x 173 mm.)

來源

E. Desperet (L. 721); Paris, 7-10 June 1865, part of lot 528.
H. Destailleur; Paris, 7-8 June 1901, lot 117.

出版

P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan, 1996, II, no. 471.

拍品專文

Nude studies are rare among Watteau's surviving drawings, since, as tradition has it, the artist destroyed the most sensual sheets before his death. However, a celebrated series of partly draped female nudes, reclining or seated on sofas, has survived and is now in the British Museum and in private collections, P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, op. cit., nos. 578-83. The present sheet is executed solely in red chalk and may be a study of a woman bathing. Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat suggest a date circa 1716, while Margaret Morgan Grasselli dates the drawing to around 1718-9.