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Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)

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Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)
A seated woman seen from behind, after Bassano
black, red and white chalk (some black chalk possibly later)
14½ x 9.3/8 in. (368 x 238 mm.)

Prince von Oettingen-Wallerstein; Munich, 24-26 November 1936, lot 1253 (as attributed to Bassano), according to a note in the Hirsch catalogue.
Baron Robert von Hirsch, Basel, before 1957; Sotheby's London, 20-21 June 1978, lot 57 (£9,800 to Calmann).

Specialist note

Dated by Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat to circa 1715. The figure appears in a Pastoral Landscape by Jacopo Bassano now in the Thyssen Collection and in The Flood attributed to Gerolamo Bassano, a version of which, now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nancy, was in the French Royal Collection by 1683.