The Old Savoyard by Jean Antoine Watteau
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The Old Savoyard

Jean Antoine Watteau · c. 1715

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Jean de Julienne (died 1766); sold, Paris, March 30-May 22, 1767, de Julienne Sale, lot 769 [London 1948 auc. cat.]. Mrs. A. L. Grimaldi; sold, Sotheby’s, London, February 25, 1948, lot 85. Georges Wildenstein, London, by 1957 [Washington, D.C., 1984; Parker and Mathey 1957]. Mrs. Corina Kavanagh, Buenos Aires; sold, Sotheby’s, London, March 11, 1964, lot 220, to the Art Institute.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, "French Master Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries in North American Collections," 1972, cat. 153, cat. by Pierre Rosenberg.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 54-55, cat. 26 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," January 24-March 28, 1976, p. 44, cat. 30 (ill.).
  • Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 1 (ill.).
  • Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 12-13, cat. 1 (ill.).
  • Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "Watteau," June 17-September 23, 1984, cat. 52; also traveled to Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, October 23, 1984-January 28, 1985; and Berlin, Charlottenburg Château, February 22-May 26, 1985.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 88-89, cat. 36 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "In Context: Recent Acquisitions to the Regenstein Collection," February 20 -April 28, 1995.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.
  • New York, Frick Collection, "Watteau and His World: French Drawing from 1700-1750," October 19, 1999-January 9, 2000, cat. 14, cat. by Alan Wintermute, et al.; traveled to Ottawa, the National Gallery of Canada, February 11-May 8, 2000.
  • London, Royal Academy of Arts, "Watteau: The Drawings", March 12, - June 5, 2011, cat. 27, pp. 18, 23, 80-82, cat. by Pierre Rosenberg, et. al.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking 1400-1850", March 15 - June 1, 2025, p. 75, 78. 117-18, 120-21, 211, fig. 61 (ill.), cat. by Jamie Gabbarelli, Edina Adam, et. al.

Literature

Published references

  • Edmond de Goncourt, Catalogue Raisonné de l’Oeuvre Peint, Dessiné et Grave d’Antoine Watteau (Paris, 1875), p. 243, no. 370.
  • K. T. Parker and J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau, Catalogue Complet de son Oeuvre Dessiné (Paris, 1957), no. 492 (ill.).
  • Art Quarterly, 27 (1964), p. 499.
  • Bilder und Preise, 24 (June 28, 1965).
  • Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Supplement (February 1965), no. 186.
  • Hugh Edwards, "Two Drawings by Antoine Watteau," Museum Studies (1966), pp. 8-14 (ill.).
  • Edgar Munhall, "Savoyards in French 18th Century Art," Apollo (February 1968), no. 5 (ill.).
  • Pierre Rosenberg, Mostra di Disegni Francesi da Callot a Ingres (Florence, 1968), p. 62.
  • Rosenberg, French Master Drawings, no. 153 (ill.).
  • John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London, 1970), p. 147 (ill.).
  • Gottfried Lindemann, "Prints and Drawings: A Pictorial History", (Praeger Publishers, Inc. 1970), pp. 177 (ill.), 175-176.
  • Donald Posner, "An Aspect of Watteau ‘Peintre de la Réalité’," Études d’Art Français Offertes à Charles Sterling (Paris, 1975), pp. 282 and 285.

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