Antoine Watteau
1684-1721
A River Landscape
7 3/8 x 11 3/4 inches (188 x 299 mm)
Red chalk on paper.
I, 277
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, at lower left, "2"; at lower right, "a/r".
Associated names
Houlditch, Richard, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, no. 277, repr.
Denison, Cara D. French Drawings, 1550-1825. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, no. 38.
Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, "Antoine Watteau 1684-1721, Catalogue raisonné des dessins", 3 vols., Milan, 1996, III, no. R392, p. 1250, repr.
Denison, Cara D. French Drawings, 1550-1825. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, no. 38.
Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, "Antoine Watteau 1684-1721, Catalogue raisonné des dessins", 3 vols., Milan, 1996, III, no. R392, p. 1250, repr.
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