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Jean-Antoine Watteau, Circle of (Valenciennes 1684 – Nogent-sur-Marne 1721)
Sheet size: 12 x 14,8 cm / 4.7 × 5.8 in
The head is covered with a lion’s cap and turned to the right. The left hand grasps the blowpipe of the bagpipes. The drawing is based on a detail from Pietro da Cortona’s (1596–1669) painting in the Salon de Mars at the Palazzo Pitti, Florence. The initial attribution to Watteau was made by Jacques Mathey.
Literature:
Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat (eds.), Antoine Watteau 1684–1721, Catalogue raisonné du dessin, vol. III, no. R604, Paris 1996 (location unknown at the time).
Provenance (according to the Catalogue raisonné):
Formerly Galerie G. Aymonnier, Paris.
Francis Abbott, Edinburgh, catalogue 1971.
Galerie Genevieve Aymonnier, Paris, 1971, cat. no. 20, illustrated.
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