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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1978.56
People
Copy after Jean-Antoine Watteau, French (Valenciennes 1684 - 1721 Nogent-sur-Marne)
Title
Five Standing Women; verso: Sketch of Standing Female Figure Seen from Behind
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295989

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk on cream antique laid paper (recto and verso)
Dimensions
21.8 x 15.5 cm (8 9/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: left edge: fragment of letters "GR"

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Therese Kuhn Straus in memory of her husband, Herbert N. Straus, Harvard Class of 1903
Accession Year
1978
Object Number
1978.56
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721: catalogue raisonné des dessins, Leonardo Arte (Milan, 1996), vol. 2, under no. 547, fig. 547a; vol. 3, no. R105, repr. (recto and verso)

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