Standing Savoyarde with a Marmot Box

Antoine Watteau  (French, Valenciennes 1684–1721 Nogent-sur-Marne)

Date:
ca. 1715
Medium:
Red and black chalk
Dimensions:
12 5/16 x 8 in. (31.2 x 20.3 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Bequest of Therese Kuhn Straus, in memory of her husband, Herbert N. Strauss, 1978
Accession Number:
1978.12.1
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: In pen and brown ink at lower right corner (recto) : "Watteau"; on verso, in pen and black ink, draft of a letter in an unknown hand: "Monsieur/ J'ai reçu aujourd'hui vos deux lettres ensemble qui ont/ autant donné de peine au facteur pour me les remettre en/ main qu'elle m'ont causé de surprise par la qualité/ que vous me donnez de peintre de son A. A. Monseignr/ Le Duc d'Orléans moy indigne et qui n'a aucun talens/ pour y aspirer a moins que d'un miracle. J'ai tant/ de foy en vos reliques que je ne doute nullement de son/ accomplissement si vous voulez avoir la bontée de joindre vos/ prières au désir que j'ai d'acquérir du crédit et de la/ faveur mes désirs sont sans bornes quand même."

  • Provenance

    F. Locker Lampson (British, 1821–1895); Right Honourable Augustine Birrell ; Richard Owen London, July 1929; Herbert Straus

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bean and Turcic 1986.328; Rosenberg and Prat 1996.299 (vol. I)

  • References

    Jacob Bean Notable Acquisitions (Metropolitan Museum of Art), 1975-1979: Drawings. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1979, pp. 56-7, ill.

    Jacob Bean "Departmental Accessions: Drawings." in Annual Report of the Trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 1, 1977 - June 30, 1978. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 108, New York, 1978, p. 36.

    Émile Dacier, Jacques Hérold, Albert Vuaflart Jean de Jullienne et les graveurs de Watteau au XVIII siècle. I-IV, Paris, 1921-1929, fig. no. 62, pp. 154-157.

    Jacob Bean, Lawrence Turcic 15th-18th Century French Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1986, cat. no. 328, pp. 291-292, ill.

    Karl Theodore Parker and Jacques Mathey Antoine Watteau Catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné. 2, Paris, 1957, cat. no. 496 (Vol. I), p. 68, ill.

    French Drawings from American Collections Clouet to Matisse. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Dutch, French and English versions of catalogue. Rotterdam, Paris, New York, MMA February 3 - March 15, 1959, cat. no. 86, fig. no. pl. 31, ill.

    Linda Boyer Gillies, Colta Ives French Drawings and Prints of the Eighteenth Century. Ex. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1972, cat. no. 48.

    Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Pierre Rosenberg Watteau, 1684-1721. Ex. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Washington, 1984, cat. no. D51, pp. 116-117, ill.

    Pierre Rosenberg, Louis-Antoine Prat Antoine Watteau 1684-1721: Catalogue raisonné des dessins. I-III, Milan, 1996, cat. no. 299 (Vol. I), pp. 476-477, ill.

    Perrin Stein, Mary Tavener Holmes Eighteenth-Century French Drawings in New York Collections Ex. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1999, cat. no. 3, pp. 5-7, ill.



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