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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