FJK 137

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

Oriental Soldier Seen In Profile and Turned to the Right After Rubens and a Subsidiary Study of His Head

Date unknown
11 13/16 × 7 63/64 in. (300 × 203 mm)

Medium
Red chalk on paper

Collector’s mark “Desperet” bottom left (Lugt 721)
Collector’s mark “Jean Gigoux” bottom left (Lugt 1164)

Origin

Etienne Desperet, said Auguste Desperet, Collection, Lyon, Paris (1804-1865)
Posthumous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 7-10, 1865, probably part of no. 530
Jean-François Gigoux Collection, Paris (1806-1894)
His sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 20-23, 1882, no. 765
Maurice Delestre Collection, Paris
His sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 14, 1936 (first part), no. 117 (under attributed to Watteau)
“G. D., Paris” Collection, 1957
Hans Maximilian Calmann Collection, London (1899-1982)
Jacques Petithory Collection, Paris (1929-1992)
Pierre Delestre Collection, Paris (1984)
Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 5, 1984, no. 127, color ill. on cover
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 3993
Jan Krugier Foundation

Bibliography

PARKER K.T., MATHEY J., Antoine Watteau, Catalogue complet de son œuvre dessiné, Paris: F. de Nobele, 1957, vol. I, no. 298, ill.

ROSENBERG Pierre, PRAT Louis-Antoine, Antoine Watteau 1684-1721, Catalogue raisonné des dessins, vol. III, pp. 1196-1197, no. R.174, ill. (under attributed to Watteau).

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.

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