Landscape with a Castle

Provenance

Charles Rogers (died 1784), London [Lugt 624]; by descent to his brother-in-law, William Cotton (died 1791); by descent to his son, William Cotton II; sold, Sotheby's, London, April 15, 1799, Cotton sale [New York 1990]. Adrien Fauchier-Magnan (died 1965), Paris; sold, Sotheby’s, London, December 4, 1935, Fauchier-Magnan sale, lot 72, to Lucien Guiraud (died 1954). Sold by Charles E. Slatkin Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1964.

Landscape with a Castle

Jean Antoine Watteau

1716/18

Accession Number

20523

Medium

Red chalk on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid card

Dimensions

22.4 × 33.8 cm (8 7/8 × 13 5/16 in.)

Classification

chalk

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation