Jean-Antoine Watteau
French, 1684–1721
Two Studies of a Woman with a Fan
probably before 1716
Medium | black and red chalk and traces of white chalk on light grayish-brown paper |
Dimensions | Overall: 9 3/4 x 13 15/16 in. (24.8 x 35.4 cm) |
Object Number | 1955.1852 |
Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Jean-Antoine Watteau, Two Studies of a Woman with a Fan, probably before 1716, black and red chalk and traces of white chalk on light grayish-brown paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1852
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.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-one: Drawings of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: 1965.
Tokyo: The National Museum of Western Art.. Masterpieces of World Art from American Museums, from Ancient Egyptian to Contemporary Art. Sept. 11-Oct. 17, 1976; National Museum, Kyoto, Nov. 12-Dec. 5, 1976. Cat. by Sherman E. Lee. Org. by U.S. Museum Interchange Subcommittee of CULCON.
Brooke, David S. Master Drawings: Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1995.
Jean de Jullienne.. Figures de differents caracters.. Paris.. 1728..
Emile Dacier.. Antoine Watteau, dessinateur de figures de differents cartacters.. Paris.. 1926..
Edmond de Goncourt.. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé d'Antoine Watteau.. Paris: Rapilly.. 1875..
Provenance
Colnaghi, London (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1921).