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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1999.20
People
François-Louis-Joseph Watteau (called Watteau de Lille), French (Valenciennes 1758 - 1823 Lille)
Title
Blindman's Buff
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1790
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/293888

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and red chalk, traces of graphite, on two joined sheets of off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
35.2 x 45.1 cm (13 7/8 x 17 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Inscribed on the old mount, lower right, graphite: Watteau. Inscribed on verso of old mount, top, black chalk: Cabinet de M. Boudin-Gavet.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
M. Boudin-Gavet.
W. M. Brady & Co., Inc., New York.
Jeffrey E. Horvitz.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
1999.20
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Master Drawings 1760-1890, auct. cat., W. M. Brady & Co., Inc. (New York, NY, Spring 1994), no. 5, repr.
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 155, 160, 284, repr. p. 152 as fig. 1

Exhibition History

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