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Head of an Old Bearded Man

Antoine Watteau
1684-1721

Head of an Old Bearded Man

1715-1716
6 5/8 x 5 3/16 inches (169 x 134 mm)
Black, red, and white chalk.
2000.55

Thaw Collection.

Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
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.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department