Live Auction 2134Old Master and 19th Century Drawings
Jean-Antoine Watteau (Valenciennes 1684-1721)
Lot 46 Property from the Estate of Jasmin S. Trembley

Jean-Antoine Watteau (Valenciennes 1684-1721)

A young woman in a polonais costume, seated and turned to the left

Closed29 January 2009

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Jean-Antoine Watteau (Valenciennes 1684-1721)
A young woman in a polonais costume, seated and turned to the left
red chalk
5 x 3¼ in. (127 x 83 mm.)

C. Groult; by descent to his son
Jean Groult; Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 20 November 1941, part of lot 18 (as attributed to Quillard).
With Galerie Cailleux, Paris (their stamp lower right).
Private collection, Geneva.

Specialist note

Rosenberg and Prat date the drawing to circa 1709-10 and suggest that a counterproof might have been taken from it. The figure is similar to one in a painting by Watteau, La polonaise, apparently lost but known through an engraving from the Recueil Jullienne. Four other drawings depicting women in 'polonais' costumes, all dating circa 1709-10, are known (Rosenberg and Prat, op. cit., nos. 27, 28, 44 and 76).