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Antoine Watteau
1684-1721
Study of a Woman Spinning and Five Studies of Hands
Red chalk, with framing line in pen and brown ink, on paper
6 1/8 x 6 1/2 inches (156 x 165 mm)
Gift of Mrs. Gertrude W. and Seth Dennis.
1985.61
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Watermark: bunch of grapes.
This is a preparatory drawing for the main figure in Watteau's painting "L'Indiscret" (Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam), variously dated between 1713 and 1715.
Inscription:
Inscribed in pen and gray ink, at lower left, "Wattaux".
Provenance:
Sir Frederick Wedmore (no mark; see Lugt 1053); Mr. and Mrs. Seth Dennis, New York.
Associated names:
Wedmore, Frederick, Sir, 1844-1921, former owner.
Dennis, Gertrude W., former owner.
Dennis, Seth, former owner.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 387-388.
Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, "Antoine Watteau 1684-1721, Catalogue raisonné des dessins", 3 vols., Milan, 1996, I, no. 227, p. 360, repr.
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