1979.52: Standing Man with Subsidiary Study of a Male Head

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1979.52

People

Jean-Antoine Watteau, French (Valenciennes 1684 - 1721 Nogent-sur-Marne)

Title

Standing Man with Subsidiary Study of a Male Head

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1715

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/294976

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red, black and white chalk on tan antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink

Dimensions

26.8 × 21.1 cm (10 9/16 × 8 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: mount, verso, lower left, brown ink: Wa
• inscription: mount, lower left, graphite: Watteau
• inscription: mount, lower right, graphite: 7
• inscription: mount, verso, upper right, purple ink: CBW / 61
• inscription: mount, verso, upper left, graphite: 2778
• inscription: mount, verso, center, graphite: 50ms
• inscription: mount, verso, lower right, graphite: 3209
• inscription: mount, verso, lower right, graphite: E. Franc [illegible]
• inscription: mount, verso, bottom center, brown ink: Dijonval Colln
• inscription: mount, verso, lower right, graphite: FLH 566
• watermark: laid down; none visible

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gilbert Paignon-Dijonval, Paris; Andrew James, London, gift; to his daughter, Sarah Ann James, London, by descent; her estate sale, Christie's, London, 22 -23 June 1891, lot 294, sold; to Arthur Tooth & Sons, London; Camille Groult, Paris, gift; to his son, Jean Groult, Paris, by descent, gift; to his son, Pierre Bordeaux-Groult, Paris, by descent; sale, Palais Galliera, Paris, 11 April 1962, lot 40; Robert M. Light, Boston (by 1973), sold; to Philip Hofer, Cambridge; to his wife, Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, by descent, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer, inv. no. 1979.52

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer

Accession Year

1979

Object Number

1979.52

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Publication History

• Pierre-Maurice Bénard, Cabinet de M. Paignon-Dijonval, état détaillé et raisonné des dessins et estampes dont il est composé, Huzard (Paris, 1810), cat. no. 3209, p. 138
• Edmond de Goncourt, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, dessiné et gravé d'Antoine Watteau, Rapilly (Paris, 1875), cat. no. 7, p. 351
• Karl T. Parker and Jacques Mathey, Antoine Watteau, catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné, Libraire F. de Nobele (Paris, 1957), vol. 2, cat. no. 650, p. 325
• “Acquisitions 1978-1979", Annual Report (Fogg Art Museum), ed. Seymour Slive, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1978-1980), pp. 87-165, pp. 145-56
• Eunice Williams, Master Drawings and Watercolors: The Hofer Collection, exh. cat., ed. Konrad Oberhuber and William W. Robinson, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1984), cat. no. 27, pp. 37-38, 104
• Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Pierre Rosenberg, and Nicole Parmantier, Watteau, 1684-1721, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art and Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Washington and Paris, 1984), p. 147
• Marianne Roland Michel, Watteau: un artiste au XVIIIe siècle, Flammarion (Paris, 1984), pp. 97, 100
• Margaret Morgan Grasselli, "Watteau’s Use of the Trois-Crayons Technique", Drawings Defined, ed. Walter Strauss and Tracie Felker, Abaris Books (New York, 1987), pp. 181-94, pp. 186, 188, 194-n.20
• Margaret Morgan Grasselli, "The Drawings of Antoine Watteau: Stylistic Development and Problems of Chronology" (1987), Harvard University, cat. no. 139, vol. 1, pp. xiv, 198, 277, 484, vol. 2, n.p.
• Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721: catalogue raisonné des dessins, Leonardo Arte (Milan, 1996), vol. 2, cat. no. 404, pp. 664-65
• Alan Wintermute, Watteau and His World: French Drawing from 1700 to 1750, exh. cat., Merrell Holberton Publishers / American Federation of Arts (London, 1999), cat. no. 20, pp. 130-31
• Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), cat. no. 54, repr., p. 18

Exhibition History

• Master Drawings and Watercolors: The Hofer Collection, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, 04/15/1984 - 07/07/1984; Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/05/1984 - 11/29/1984
• Watteau and His World: French Drawing from 1700 to 1750, The Frick Collection, New York, 10/19/1999 - 01/09/2000; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 02/11/2000 - 05/08/2000

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