Former Attribution:Formerly attributed to Antoine Watteau (French, Valenciennes 1684–1721 Nogent-sur-Marne)
Former Attribution: Formerly attributed to Anonymous, French, 18th century
Date:ca. 1714
Medium:Red chalk
Dimensions:3 5/16 x 5 5/8 in. (8.4 x 14.3 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880
Object Number:80.3.524
Inscription: On verso, in pen and ink: 2. paisages - a la sanguine
Marking: Stamp at lower right corner, in black ink: [M encircled] (collector's mark of Pierre-Jean Mariette)
Pierre Jean Mariette (French), Mariette sale, November 1775 - January 30, 1776, possibly part of lot 1392.; James Jackson Jarves, Boston; Cornelius Vanderbilt (American)
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Coles Gallery, Tapestries and Paintings...Drawings by Old Masters," 1895.
Bean and Turcic 1986.327; Rosenberg and Prat 1996.235
Coles Gallery, 8: Tapestries and Paintings, Malachites, Vases, etc.; Drawings by Old Masters, Etchings, Photographs, and Tapestries in Gallery 4, Main Hall. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hand-book, no. 8, New York, 1895, cat. no. 524, p. 33.
Colin Eisler "Two Immortalized Landscapes- Watteau and the Recueil Jullienne." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 24, New York, January 1966, pp. 165-176.
Martin P. Eidelberg "Watteau's Use of Landscape Drawings." Master Drawings. vol. 2, 1967, fig. no. pl. 30, p. 175.
Malcolm Cormack The Drawings of Watteau. London, New York, 1970, cat. no. 37, fig. no. pl. 37, p. 27, ill.
Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Pierre Rosenberg Watteau, 1684-1721. Ex. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Washington, 1984, cat. no. under D36, fig. no. 4, pp. 99-102, ill.
Jacob Bean, Lawrence Turčić 15th-18th Century French Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1986, cat. no. 327, p. 291, ill.
Pierre Rosenberg, Louis-Antoine Prat Antoine Watteau 1684-1721: Catalogue raisonné des dessins. Milan, 1996, cat. no. 235 (vol. I), pp. 374-375, ill.
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