Three Studies of a Gentleman

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Prints and Drawings

1710/11

Jean Antoine Watteau
French, 1684-1721

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jean Antoine Watteau
Title: Three Studies of a Gentleman
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1710–1711
Medium: Red chalk on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 16.6 × 20.2 cm (6 9/16 × 8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1998.113
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K. T. Parker and J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau: Catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné (F. de Nobele, 1957), p. 10, cat. 59 (ill.).
Marianne Roland Michel, Watteau: Un Artiste au XVIIIe siècle (Flammarion, 1984), p. 130.
Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Pierre Rosenberg, Watteau, 1684–1721, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C., 1984), p. 66, under D.6.
Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Antoine Watteau 1684–1721: Catalogue raisonné des dessins
(Milan, 1996), pp. 150–51, no. 95 (ill.).

Paris, Galerie Cailleux, “Le Dessin français de Watteau à Prud’hon,” 1951, cat. 166.
Paris, Galerie Cailleux, “Watteau et sa generation,” 1984, cat. 34.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 51, cat. 25 (ill.).

Camille Groult (1837–1908), Paris; by descent to his son, Jean Groult (1868–1951); sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 20, 1941, under lot 6, to Tony Mayer; sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, December 3, 1957, lot 20. Galerie Cailleux, Paris, by 1968 [Paris 1968; stamp (Cx; not in Lugt), lower left, in black]; sold to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, December 22, 1976; given to the Art Institute, 1998.

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