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Oliver T. Banks Princeton University. Watteau and the North: Studies in the Dutch and Flemish Baroque Influence on French Rococo Painting. New York, 1977, pp. 121, 183–84, figs. 35, 119 (detail and whole).
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Donald Posner. Antoine Watteau. Ithaca, N.Y., 1984, pp. 57–58, 206, 208, 224–25, 258, 288 n. 16, colorpl. 48.
Marianne Roland Michel. Watteau: An Artist of the Eighteenth Century. New York, 1984, pp. 156–58, 204, 266, 269, 272–73, fig. 144, colorpl. 38 (detail of head).
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