drawing
- Museum number
- 1891,0713.12
- Description
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A seated woman and two studies after sculptures of putti playing with a goat; at left a seated woman wearing a long dress, turned half right, leaning with her weight on her right hand, her left arm in her lap, study from one side of two putti playing on a goat and at right the same sculpture seen from the front
Red chalk, touched with white; on brown paper
- Production date
- 1684-1721
- Dimensions
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Height: 222 millimetres
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Width: 376 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Catalogue gives registration no. wrongly as 1891-7-13-2.
Etched in reverse by G. Scotin (D.V.28). See also Watteau's painting 'Récréation galante' in Berlin.
Literature: Rosenberg-Prat, Watteau. Cat. raisonné des dessins, 1996, p.714, no.429 (with further literature).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1980, BM, Watteau drawings in the BM, No. 48
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1891,0713.12