Studies of a Flutist and Two Women

c. 1717

Medium	red, black, and white chalk on buff paper
Dimensions	Overall: 10 1/2 x 9 1/16 in. (26.7 x 23 cm)
Object Number	1955.1839
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Jean-Antoine Watteau, Studies of a Flutist and Two Women, c. 1717, red, black, and white chalk on buff paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1839

Select Bibliography

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-one: Drawings of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: 1965. Wildenstein & Company. An Exhibition of Treasures from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Paintings, drawings & rare silver, for the benefit of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art, inc. (CRIA). Exhibition catalogue. New York: Wildenstein & Company, 1967. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. A Selection of Drawings from the Collection of the Clark Art Institute. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: The Clark, 1974. Brooke, David S. Master Drawings: Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1995. Wintermute, Alan P., et al. Watteau and His World: French Drawings from 1700 to 1750. Exhibition catalogye. New York: The Frick Collection; London: Merrell Holberton Publishers, 1999. Tancred Borenius.. . Pantheon, 16.. (1935).. John Canaday.. "Watteau's Forbidden World.". Horizon.. Summer 1966.. Rich, Alan. Music: Mirror of the Arts. New York: Frederick A. Praeger. 1969. Faison, S. Lane, Jr. The Art Museums of New England: Massachusetts. Vol. 2. Revised edition of Faison, Guide to the Art Museums of New England, 1958. Godine Guide 3. Boston: David R. Godine, 1982. Ganz, James A. "Old Masters in the Clark Collection, Part II: Prints and Drawings" The Magazine Antiques 62, no. 4 (October 1997): 51015. Susan Miranda Barrow.. Contribution of Japonisme to the Aesthetic of the French Naturalist Novel: A Study of Selected Works of the Goncourts, Zola and Huysmans.. Ph.D. diss., City University of New York; University Microfilms.. 2000.. Karl Theodore Parker and Jacques Mathey.. Antoine Watteau, catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné.. Paris: F. de Nobele.. 1957.. Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, ed.. Antoine Watteau. 1684-1721: Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Tome II.. Milan: Leonardo Arte/Electa/Elemond-Spa.. 1996.. Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Brooke, David S., Rafael Fernandez, and Beth Carver Wees. Three Cheers for the Twenty-Fifth. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1980.

Provenance

Dominique Vivant-Denon (sale Paris, May 1, 1826, no. 823); Adrien Fauchier-Magnan (sale London, Sotheby, December 4, 1935, no. 64 {illustrated}, bought by Knoedler, for Robert Sterling Clark).