drawing
- Museum number
- 1910,0212.97
- Description
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Study of a woman seen from behind and head of the same woman looking to right; half-length woman seen from behind, her hair tied up on top, study of face, head and shoulders at top left with head tilted to right
Red and black chalks
- Production date
- 1684-1721
- Dimensions
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Height: 232 millimetres
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Width: 163 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Literature: Rosenberg-Prat, Watteau. Cat. raisonné des dessins, 1996, no.411 (with further literature); J. Labbé and L. Bicart-Sée, 'La collection de dessins d'Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville: reconstituée d'après son abrégé de la vie des plus fameux peintres, édition de 1762', Paris, 1996, pp. 323-4
Rosenberg and Prat date the present drawing to c.1715-1716. Etched in reverse by P. Filloeul ('Tête de femme'). See also Watteau's painting 'L'assemblée dans un parc' in Paris.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1980, BM, Watteau drawings in the BM, No. 29
2019-2020 5 Oct-19 Jan, Tokyo, Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, Splendeur de la Peinture Francaise
2020 4 Feb-29 Mar, Fukuoka, Kyushu National Museum, Splendeur de la Peinture Francaise
2020 11 Apr-16 Aug, Osaka, Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, Splendeur de la Peinture Francaise
- Acquisition date
- 1910
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1910,0212.97
