Four Studies of a Woman's Head and Two of a Seated Woman, Jean Antoine Watteau, 1705 - 1721

Identification

Title(s)

Four Studies of a Woman's Head and Two of a Seated Woman

Object type

drawing

Object number

RP-T-1953-183

Description

Studieblad met vier vrouwenhoofden en twee zittende vrouwen ten voeten uit.

Creation

Artist

draughtsman: Jean Antoine Watteau

Dating

1705 - 1721

Material and Technique

Material

Technique

brush

Measurements

height 229 mm × width 350 mm

Subject

What

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

transferred 1960

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; sale, Madame la Marquise de Ganay-Ridgway (-1921), Paris (Galerie Georges Petit), 8 May 1922 sqq., no. 27, frs 95,000;{Copy RKD.}…; purchased from the estate of Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, en bloc, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz, 1940;{Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1952;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1960

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Notes

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Relations

Documentation

Antoine Watteau : catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné, K.T., Mathey, J. Parker, cat.nr. 745
Watteau, Michiel Christiaan Plomp, Michiel Christiaan Plomp, Martin Sonnabend, Marja Jager, afb. p. 215, cat.nr. 66
Watteau : der Zeichner, Michiel Christiaan Plomp, Martin Sonnabend, Christoph Martin Vogtherr, afb. p. 217, cat.nr. 65
Watteau : the drawings, Pierre Rosenberg, Louis-Antoine Prat, Martin P. Eidelberg, p. 130-131, cat.nr. 54
De Watteau à Ingrès : dessins français du XVIIIe siècle du Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Robert-Jan A. te Rijdt, cat.nr. 10
Van Watteau tot Ingres : 18de-eeuwse Franse tekeningen uit het Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Robert-Jan A. te Rijdt, Ger C.M. Luijten, Jan Frederik Heijbroek (1949), cat.nr. 10
Antoine Watteau 1684-1721 : catalogue raisonné des dessins, Pierre Rosenberg, Louis-Antoine Prat, cat.nr. 454
Franse tekenkunst van de 18e eeuw uit Nederlandse verzamelingen, Jan Wolter Niemeijer, Peter Schatborn, p. 99, cat.nr. 121
Renaud Temperini, Watteau, Milaan en Parijs, 2002, p. 19.

Persistent URL

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