A Bewigged Painter (Possibly Claude Audran), Seated at his Easel, Seen in Profile

Provenance

Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine (died 1830); Martin Norblin de la Gourdaine (died 1854). The Baronne de Conantré, 1875 [Goncourt 1875]; by descent to her daughter, The Baronne de Rublé; by descent to her daughter, Mme. De Witte; by descent to her daughter, the Marquise de Bryas, Orange; sold to Galerie Cailleux, Paris, by 1959 [a conversation with Marianne Roland-Michel of Galerie Cailleux]. William H. Schab, New York, 1961 [invoice]. Otto Schäfer, Schweinfurt, Germany [invoice]. Sold, Sotheby's, London, July 7, 1999, lot 54 to Spink-Leger Gallery, London; sold to the Art Institute, 1999.

A Bewigged Painter (Possibly Claude Audran), Seated at his Easel, Seen in Profile

Jean Antoine Watteau

c. 1709

Accession Number

153181

Medium

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

Dimensions

20.1 × 13.4 cm (7 15/16 × 5 5/16 in.)

Classification

chalk

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Regenstein Collection