Live Auction 9320Important Old Master Drawings
Circle of Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)

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Circle of Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)
Hygieia with a serpent, after Rubens
red and black chalk, blue wash, fragmentary watermark device
12¾ X 10.1/8 in. (322 x 259 mm.)

J. Gigoux (L. 1164); Paris, 20-3 March 1882, lot 430 (as Rubens, 520frs. to Féral).
Charles Haviland; Paris, 14-5 December 1922, lot 27 (as Rubens).
Georges Haviland; Paris, 2-3 June 1932, lot 98 (as Rubens).
Dr. H.C. Valkema Blouw; F. Muller, Amsterdam, 2-3 March 1954, lot 395 (as Rubens).

Specialist note

After a drawing attributed to Govert Flinck in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, op. cit., fig. R182. The Rennes drawing relates to a composition by Rubens known through three versions, in the National Gallery, Prague, another in the Detroit Museum of Art, and a third now lost.