Attributed to Jean-Antoine Watteau (Valenciennes 1684-1721 Nogent-sur-Marne)
Attributed to Jean-Antoine Watteau (Valenciennes 1684-1721 Nogent-sur-Marne)

An Italian town seen from outside the walls

细节
Attributed to Jean-Antoine Watteau (Valenciennes 1684-1721 Nogent-sur-Marne)
An Italian town seen from outside the walls
with inscription 'A. Watteau'
red chalk
8 x 12 1/8 in. (20.4 x 30.7 cm.)
来源
Camile Groult (1832-1908), Paris; thence by descent to his son,
Jean Groult (1868-1951); thence by descent to his son,
Pierre Bordeaux-Groult (1916-2007), Paris, until 1983, when acquired by the present owner.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
出版
K.T. Parker and J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau, catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné, Paris, 1957, I, pp. 51, 55, no. 394, fig. 394 (as by Antoine Watteau).
J. Cailleux, 'Newly identified drawings by Watteau', Burlington Magazine, CIX, no. 767, February 1967, p. 59 (as by Antoine Watteau).
M. Eidelberg, Watteau's drawings, their use and significance, New York and London, 1977, p. 79, under nt. 10 (as by Antoine Watteau).
M. Morgan Grasselli, The drawings of Antoine Watteau: Stylistic development and problems of chronology, unpubl. Ph.D, Harvard University, 1987, II, p. 340, nt. 33 (as by Antoine Watteau).
M. Eidelberg, 'Watteau's Italian reveries', Gazette des Beaux Arts, 6e pér., CXXVI, no. 1521, October 1995, pp. 117, 135, nt. 40 (as by Antoine Watteau).
P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721: catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan, 1996, III, pp. 1262-63, no. R423.
M. Eidelberg, in exh. cat. Rêveries italiennes. Watteau et les paysagistes français au XVIIIe siècle, Valenciennes, 2015, p. 53, nt. 62 (as by Antoine Watteau).

拍品专文

This is part of a group of at least eleven landscapes or to be more precise of city views in red chalk which had always been given to Watteau until Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat rejected them in their catalogue raisonné. Inscriptions on the drawings show that three are views of Rome (Rosenberg and Prat, op. cit., nos. R577, R628, and R689), five are views of Padua (nos. R416, R553, R618, R660, and R853), and one is of Bassano (R. 597). The other two, including the present drawing, do not bear any inscription. Watteau never travelled to Italy and Martin Eidelberg, who still gives them to Watteau himself, has shown that the drawings are copies after Nicolas Vleughels (1668-1737) (for a portrait of Vleughels by Watteau, see lot 63). In only one instance, the prototype by Vleughels, in black chalk and wash, and the red chalk copy have both been preserved (M. Eidelberg, op. cit., 2014, figs. 48 and 54).

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