Study for The Feast of Love

Provenance

Possibly Col. M. Vailly [Rosenberg and Prat 1996]. Possibly sold, Paris, Apri 29l-May 4, 1867, Martial Pelletier sale, lot 1446 [Rosenberg and Prat 1996]. Marquis Philippe de Chennevières (died 1899), by 1875 [Goncourt 1875; Lugt 2072]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 5-6, 1898, de Chennevières sale, lot 193, to Jacques Doucet (died 1929), Paris [Rosenberg and Prat 1996]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 5, 1912, Doucet sale, lot 69. Marius Paulme (died 1928), Paris [Paris 1985]. Maurice Fenaille (died 1937), Paris, by 1931 [Parker 1931]; probably by descent to his daughter, Mme. de Billy (née Yvonne Fenaille), and her husband, Count Robert de Billy (died 1985), Paris, by 1950-at least 1957 [Adhemar 1950; Parker and Mathey 1957]. Karl-Hans Strauss, Paris [Rosenberg and Prat 1996]. Artemis, London, by 1974 [London 1974]. Sold by Robert Light and Company, Boston, to the Art Institute, 1975.

Study for The Feast of Love

Jean Antoine Watteau

c. 1717

Accession Number

48981

Medium

Red chalk and graphite on buff laid paper

Dimensions

19.6 × 26.5 cm (7 3/4 × 10 7/16 in.)

Classification

chalk

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Helen Regenstein Collection; Mrs. Henry C. Woods and Wirt D. Walker fund endowments