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This drawing shows two individuals. On the left, a man is lying on the ground with his upper body propped up by his arms, facing towards a woman on the right. The man reaches out towards her. The woman is seated, facing away from the man and looking to the right. She wears a voluminous white gown and has her hair in an updo. The background is plain, beige paper.
National Gallery of Art · Drawing
A Man Reclining and a Woman Seated on the Ground
Antoine Watteau
- Date
- c. 1716
- Medium
- red, black, and white chalk on brown laid paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 24.1 x 35.9 cm (9 1/2 x 14 1/8 in.)
- Classification
- Drawing
- Accession number
- 1991.217.12
- Credit line
- The Armand Hammer Collection
- Time span
- 1701 to 1725
- Department
- CG-E
Subjects and terms
- French
- amusement
- genre
- Rococo
- Courtship
Provenance
Anonymous sale, (Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 28 May 1892, no. 72); Lallemand (sale, Paris, 2 May 1894); Léon Michel-Lévy [1846-1925] (his sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 17-18 June 1925, no. 106); George Blumenthal [1858-1941], New York (his sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 1-2 December 1932, no. 48); (Jean Seligmann). [1] Mrs. Jesse I. Straus [née Irma S. Nathan, 1876-1970], New York, (her sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, 21 October 1970, no. 20); Armand Hammer Collection, Los Angeles, 1970; gift to NGA, 1991. [1] Annotated sales catalogue in NGA library.
Inscription
by later hand, lower right in brown ink: Vataux fec. (crossed out); by later hand, lower left in graphite: Watteau.
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