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Two Studies of a Woman Seen from the Front and Another Woman Seen from the Back

After Jean-Antoine Watteau

French, 1684–1721

Two Studies of a Woman Seen from the Front and Another Woman Seen from the Back

1704–50

Medium red, black, and white chalk on paper
Dimensions Overall: 9 13/16 x 10 15/16 in. (25 x 27.8 cm)
Object Number 1955.1836
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status Off View

Image Caption

After Jean-Antoine Watteau, Two Studies of a Woman Seen from the Front and Another Woman Seen from the Back, 1704–50, red, black, and white chalk on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1836

Select Bibliography

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. Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, ed.. Antoine Watteau. 1684-1721: Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Tome II.. Milan: Leonardo Arte/Electa/Elemond-Spa.. 1996..

Provenance

Baron de Miraval (purchased 1750, according to information received by Knoedler from Pierre E. Massin de Miraval); Marquise de Hauterive (inherited drawing from the Baron de Miraval, according to Massin de Miraval); Baron Pierre E. Massin de Miraval (cold to Knoedler, March 21, 1941, according to letter from H. Ripperger, Librarian, Knoedler & Co.); Knoedler, New York (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1941).

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