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Antoine Watteau

Valenciennes 1684 – 1721 Nogent-sur-Marne

„Étude de jeune homme assis, la jambe droite et la main levées“.

Red chalk on thin laid paper. 15,8 × 11 cm (6 ¼ × 4 ⅜ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Antoine Watteau. „Étude de jeune homme assis, la jambe droite et la main levées“.

Estimate:

EUR 70,000

 

- 90,000

USD 79,500

 

- 102,300

Sold for:

87,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions October 2018

Bernd Schultz Collection I, Thursday, 25.10.2018

Information

Red chalk on thin laid paper. 15,8 × 11 cm (6 ¼ × 4 ⅜ in.). Catalogue raisonné: Catalogue raisonné: Rosenberg/Prat, Band I, Nr. 63, p. 100.

Mme Watteau, Paris / André Lesouef, Rouen (1957) / Cailleux, Paris / Claus Virch, Paris / Day & Faber Ltd., London (2012)

We find a harlequin in almost identical pose in Watteau's painting „Voulez-vous triompher des Belles?", circa 1714/17, in the Wallace Collection, London (inv. no. P387). We would like to thank Prof. Dr. Urs Voßmerbäumer, Mainz for this indication.

Margaret M. Grasselli: The Drawings of Antoine Watteau, Stylistic Development and Problems of Chronology. Dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1987, Volume I, p. 124, Volume II, p. 447, Volume III, cat. no. 41, Illustration no. 114 / Louis-Antoine Prat: Le dessin français au XVIIIe siècle. Paris, 2017, Illustration 35, p. 30