1978.56: Five Standing Women; verso: Sketch of Standing Female Figure Seen from Behind
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1978.56
- People
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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
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- 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
- Permissions
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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)
Verification Level
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