Allegory of Spring, or the Young Gardeners

Provenance

Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 23, 1899, lot 93. Léon Michel-Lévy (1846-1925), Paris; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 17-18, 1925, lot 118 to Jules Strauss (1861-1943), Paris [annotated sales catalogue]; sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, May 27, 1949, lot 5 (as by Claude Gillot). Sold by Otto Wertheimer (1878-1972), Paris, to the Art Institute, 1955.

Allegory of Spring, or the Young Gardeners

Jean Antoine Watteau

n.d.

Accession Number

84279

Medium

Red chalk on buff laid paper, laid down on white laid paper

Dimensions

15.7 × 21.6 cm (6 3/16 × 8 9/16 in.)

Classification

chalk

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Margaret Day Blake