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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.61
People
Jean-Antoine Watteau, French (Valenciennes 1684 - 1721 Nogent-sur-Marne)
After Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish (Siegen, Westphalia 1577 - 1640 Antwerp, Belgium)
Title
Heads of Two Bearded Old Men
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296767

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red and black chalk on light tan antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
Dimensions
16.5 x 21.5 cm (6 1/2 x 8 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: None

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Paul J. Sachs Memorial Fund
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.61
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. 1, no. 240, repr.
  • Martin Eidelberg, "An Album of Drawings from Rubens' Studio", Master Drawings (1997), vol. XXXVII, no. 3, pp. 239-40, repr. in b/w fig. 38
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, "Drawing Time", October, MIT Press (Cambridge, MA, 2015), no. 151, Winter, pp. 3-42, pp. 10-11, repr.

Verification Level

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