FJK 133

Watteau Antoine (French, Valenciennes 1684–1721 Nogent-sur-Marne)

Two Busts of Old Grinning Men

ca. 1714 (?)
7 1/64 × 7 13/64 in. (178 × 183 mm)

Medium
Red chalk on paper

Collector’s mark “J. Gigoux” bottom left (Lugt 1164)
Collector’s mark “Desperet” bottom right (Lugt 721)

Origin

Baron Dominique Vivant-Denon Collection (1747-1825), according to the Gigoux sale catalogue
Etienne Desperet, said Auguste Desperet Collection, Lyon, Paris (1804-1865)
Posthumous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 7-10, 1865, likely part of no. 530 (13 francs)
Jean-François Gigoux Collection (1806-1894), Paris
Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 20-23, 1882, no. 768 (31 francs to Féral)
Camille Groult Collection (1837-1908)
Jean Groult, his son,s Collection (1868-1951)
Pierre Bordeaux-Groult Collection, Paris (by descent)
His sale, Ader Picard Tajan, Palais d’Orsay, Paris, December 14, 1979, no. 13
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 4075
Jan Krugier Foundation

Bibliography

PARKER K.T., MATHEY J., Antoine Watteau, Catalogue complet de son œuvre dessiné, Paris: F. de Nobele, 1957, vol. II, no. 923, ill.

ROSENBERG Pierre, CAMESASCA Ettore, Tout l’œuvre peint de Watteau, Paris, 1970, p. 169, note 6.

GRASSELI Margaret Morgan, The Drawings of Antoine Watteau, stylistic development and problems of chronology, Cambridge, Harvard University, 1987, vol. 1, p. 305.

ROSENBERG Pierre, PRAT Louis-Antoine, Antoine Watteau 1684-1721, Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Paris: Gallimard/Electa, 1996, vol. I, no. 247, pp. 396-397, color ill.

DÜCKERS Alexander, Linie, Licht und Schatten, Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, Berlin: G & H Verlag, 1999, Catalogue raisonné, p. 420, ill.

RYLANDS Philip, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, Berlin: G & H Verlag, 1999, Catalogue raisonné, p. 419, ill.

Exhibitions

Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, p. 162, no. 65, color ill. p. 163.

Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La Passion du dessin. Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2002, p. 140, no. 58, color ill. p. 141.

Munich, Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Das Ewige Auge - Von Rembrandt bis Picasso. Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2007, p. 132, no. 58, color ill. p. 133.

Request for information/loan

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