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Antoine Watteau
1684-1721
Head of an Old Bearded Man
1715-1716
Black, red, and white chalk.
6 5/8 x 5 3/16 inches (169 x 134 mm)
Thaw Collection.
2000.55
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Watermark: none visible through lining.
Provenance:
Mrs. E. S. Bayer; Richard Owen, Paris; Countess Sala, 1957; her sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, 17-18 November 1961, no. 178, repr.; Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York; Louis Silver, Chicago; Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York; Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw.
Associated names:
Bayer, E.S., Mrs., former owner.
Owen, Richard, former owner.
Sala, Countess, former owner.
Silver, Louis H., former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.
Bibliography:
Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 397, repr.
Stampfle, Felice, and Cara D. Denison. Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975, no. 34, repr.
Denison, Cara D. The Thaw Collection : Master Drawings and New Acquisitions. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1994, p. 258, repr.
Rosenberg, Pierre and Louis-Antoine Prat. Antoine Watteau 1684-1721, Catalogue raisonné des dessins, 3 vols., Milan, 1996, II, no. 366, p. 600, repr., and I, under no. 281, p. 443.
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