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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1964.14
People
Jean-Antoine Watteau, French (Valenciennes 1684 - 1721 Nogent-sur-Marne)
Title
Three Views of a Military Drummer
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1713
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296710

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on off-white card
Dimensions
15.5 x 19.6 cm (6 1/8 x 7 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: none
  • inscription: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine, Paris; to his son, Louis-Pierre-Martin Norblin de la Gourdaine, Paris, by descent; Marie-Élise-Antoinette-Blanche-Francisca, Baronne Bajot de Connantre (or Conantré; née Symonet), Château de Connantre, Connantre; to her daughter, Marie-Blanche-Charlotte, Comtesse des Isnards-Suze (née Bajot de Connantre), Château de Suze-la-Rousse, Suze-la-Rousse, by descent (or to her other daughter, Anne-Blanche-Caroline, Baronne de Rublé, née Bajot de Connantre, Paris and Château de Rublé, Gimat, by descent); to her daughter, Eliane, Baronne de Witte (née des Isnards-Suze), Paris, by descent; to her daughter, Germaine, Marquise de Bryas (née de Witte), Château de Suze-la-Rousse, Suze-la-Rousse, by descent; Galerie Cailleux, Paris (by 1958), sold; to John S. Newberry, New York, gift; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of John S. Newberry, inv. no. 1964.14

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of John S. Newberry
Accession Year
1964
Object Number
1964.14
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Edmond de Goncourt, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, dessiné et gravé d'Antoine Watteau, Rapilly (Paris, 1875), cat. nos. 413, 482, 617, pp. 251, 266, 290
  • Jean Cailleux, "Four Studies of Soliders by Watteau: An Essay on the Chronology of Military Subjects", The Burlington Magazine, The Burlington Magazine Publications, Ltd. (London, 1959), vol. 101, no. 678-79, September-October, n.p., pp. ii-v, vii
  • Charles E. Slatkin, French Master Drawings: Renaissance to Modern, exh. cat., Charles E. Slatkin Galleries (New York, 1959), cat. no. 29, n.p.
  • Agnes Mongan, Thirty-Three French Drawings from the Collection of John S. Newberry, Class of 1933, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1960), cat. no. 33, n.p
  • Agnes Mongan, Great Drawings of All Time, ed. Ira Moskowitz and Victoria Thorson, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1962), vol. 3, cat. no. 681, n.p.
  • “Acquisitions", Acquisitions (Fogg Art Museum), ed. John Coolidge, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1964), no. 1964, pp. 116-33, p. 123
  • Fogg Art Museum, Studies and Study Sheets: Master Drawings from Five Centuries, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1964), cat. no. 37, n.p.
  • Agnes Mongan, "Three Views of a Drummer by Antoine Watteau", Acquisitions (Fogg Art Museum), Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1965), pp. 42-48, pp. 42-48
  • “Etats-Unis", La Chronique des Arts: Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Gazette des Beaux-Arts (Paris, 1965), no. 1153, February, pp. 26-77, p. 44
  • Agnes Mongan, "A Watteau Drawing after Rubens", Acquisitions (Fogg Art Museum), Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1966), pp. 161-64, p. 161
  • Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 74, n.p.
  • Diane DeGrazia Bohlin, “Agnes Mongan (b. 1905): Connoisseur of Old Master Drawings", Women as Interpreters of the Visual Arts, 1820-1979: Contributions in Women’s Studies, ed. Claire Richter Sherman and Adele M. Holcomb, Greenwood Press (Westport, 1981), no. 18, pp. 425, 434
  • Debora Mayer, "Technical Examination of Red Chalk" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1982), Unpublished, pp. 43, 58
  • 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), cat. no. D26, pp. 88, 95, 102
  • Marianne Roland Michel, Watteau: un artiste au XVIIIe siècle, Flammarion (Paris, 1984), pp. 169-70
  • Martin Eidelberg, "Review: Watteau, 1684-1721", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (1986), vol. 23-24, no. 1, 1985-86, pp. 102-106, p. 105
  • Edgar Munhall, Little Notes Concerning Watteau's Portal of Valenciennes, The Frick Collection (New York, 1992), pp. 24-25
  • Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721: catalogue raisonné des dessins, Leonardo Arte (Milan, 1996), vol. 1, cat. no. 210, pp. 36, 332-33
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, Jean-Francois Méjanès, Alain Mérot, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Sophie Raux-Carpentier, William W. Robinson, Marianne Roland Michel, and Pierre Rosenberg, Mastery & Elegance: Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), p. 72-n.24
  • Margaret Morgan Grasselli, “Review: Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721: catalogue raisonné des dessins", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, 2001), vol. 39, no. 3, Autumn, pp. 310-14, p. 314
  • Suzanne Boorsch and John Marciari, Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT, 2006), pp. 188, 189-n.9
  • Guillaume Glorieux, Watteau, Citadelles & Mazenod (Paris, 2011), pp. 96, 100-101, 373-n.104
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, "Drawing Time", October, MIT Press (Cambridge, MA, 2015), no. 151, Winter, pp. 3-42, pp. 13-14, 34-35
  • Aaron Wile, Watteau's Soldiers: Scenes of Military Life in Eighteenth-Century France, exh. cat., The Frick Collection (New York, 2016), cat. no. 21, pp. 21, 26, 109
  • 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. 53, repr.

Exhibition History

  • French Master Drawings: Renaissance to Modern, Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, 02/10/1959 - 03/07/1959
  • Thirty-Three French Drawings from the Collection of John S. Newberry, Class of 1933, Fogg Art Museum, 06/01/1960 - 10/31/1960
  • Studies and Study Sheets, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/26/1964 - 04/18/1964
  • European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
  • HAA 271x The Origins of Modernity: The "New" 18th Century Rotation #2: Large Niche (S426A) Spring 2011, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 03/11/2011 - 06/18/2011
  • Watteau's Soldiers: Scenes of Military Life in Eighteenth-Century France, The Frick Collection, New York, 07/12/2016 - 10/03/2016

Subjects and Contexts

  • Collection Highlights
  • Google Art Project

Verification Level

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