drawing
- Museum number
- 1910,0212.96
- Description
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A woman reclining, with book in her lap and study of a woman's left hand; whole-length figure of a woman reclining, her head in profile to right, her left arm propped up against something besdie her, turning the pages of a book with her right hand, separate study of a hand at top r
Red and black chalks
- Production date
- 1684-1721
- Dimensions
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Height: 134 millimetres
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Width: 95 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Literature: Rosenberg-Prat, Watteau. Cat. raisonné des dessins, 1996, no.329 (with further literature).
Rosenberg and Prat date the present drawing to c.1717. For a similar figure, see Watteau's painting 'La leçon de chant' in Madrid. See also Watteau's drawing 'Femme assise, tournée vers la gauche, le bras droit accoudé, feuilletant un livret' and J. de Jullienne 'Femme assise'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1980, BM, Watteau drawings in the BM, No. 35
- Acquisition date
- 1910
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1910,0212.96