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Jean-Antoine Watteau (Valenciennes 1684-1721 Nogent-sur-Marne)
Lot 46 THE PROPERTY OF THE 7th EARL OF HAREWOOD’S WILL TRUST, SOLD BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES

Jean-Antoine Watteau (Valenciennes 1684-1721 Nogent-sur-Marne)

Head of a child in a feathered hat, looking to the right

Closed5 July 2016

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Jean-Antoine Watteau (Valenciennes 1684-1721 Nogent-sur-Marne)
Head of a child in a feathered hat, looking to the right
red, black and white chalk, on grey paper
5 x 4 1/8 in. (12.9 x 10.5 cm.)

John, Lord Northwick, and by descent; Sotheby's, London, 5-6 July 1921, lot 48, ill. (£205 to Agnew).
Henry George Charles Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood, and by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat have dated this study to circa 1716 (P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, op. cit., no. 449). They noted that the same child, with the same dress and hat but with slightly less round in the face, appears on the right of a sheet of figure studies by Watteau, now in the Louvre, Paris (Inv. 33366; op. cit., no. 229).