Three Studies of Seated Women

1. John Spencer (died 1746); by descent to George John (died 1834), the second Earl Spencer [Lugt 1530]; sold, Philips, London, June 10-17, 1811, lot 822 to Edward Coxe, London [according to Rosenberg and Prat 1996]; sold, Squibb, London, April 13-15, 1815, lot 132. William Esdaile (died 1837) [Lugt 2617]; sold, Christie’s, London, June 18, 1840, lot 1242. Andrew James (died before 1857); by descent to his daughter, Sarah Ann James, London; sold, Christie’s, London, June 22-23, 1891, lot 338, to Wertheimer [according to Rosenberg and Prat 1996]. H. A. Josse; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 28-29, 1894, lot 45. Camille Groult (died 1908); by descent to his son, Jean Groult (died 1951); by descent to his son, Pierre Bordeaux-Groult [according to Rosenberg and Prat 1996]. Sold by Wildenstein and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1958.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• London, South Kensington Museum, "Twenty-Six Drawings by Watteau," 1878, cat. 2.
• New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 43, pl. 16.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 56-57, cat. 27 (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, pp. 42-43, cat. 28 (ill.).
• New York, Frick Collection, "Watteau and His World: French Drawing from 1700-1750," October 19, 1999-January 9, 2000, cat. 31, cat. by Alan Wintermute, et al.; traveled to Ottawa, the National Gallery of Canada, February 11-May 8, 2000.
• New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Watteau, Music, and Theater,” 9/22/09–11/29/09, p. 74 and 75, cat. #42, cat. by Katherine Baetjer et al
• New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Watteau, Music, and Theater,” September 22–November 29, 2009, p. 75 and 74, cat. # 26, cat. by Georgia J. Cowart et. al.

• Edmond de Goncourt, Catalogue Raisonné de l’Oeuvre Peint, Dessiné et Gravé d’Antoine Watteau (Paris, 1875), no. 50.
• Hugh Edwards, “Two Drawings by Antoine Watteau,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 1 (1966), p. 9.
• Karl Theodor Parker and Jacques Mathey, Antoine Watteau, Catalogue Complet de son Oeuvre Dessiné (Paris, 1957), no. 831 (ill.).
• Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1977), p. 58, no. 2G5.
• Marianne Roland-Michel, Watteau (Paris, 1984), p. 78 (ill.).
• Margaret Morgan Grasselli, The Watteau Society Bulletin, 2 (1985), p. 44.
• Marianne Roland-Michel, Le Dessin Français au XVIII Siècle (Fribourg, 1987), p. 183 (ill.).
• Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721: Catalogue Raisonné des Dessins (Milan, 1996), pp. 908-09, no. 538 (ill.).
• Suzanne McCullagh, "Never Dormant: Drawings in Chicago," Master Drawings (2000).
• Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “ ‘A Lasting Monument’: The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 26:1 (2000), pp. 5-15, fig. 1.

Mezzetin

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Fair at Bezons

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Vase with cover (vase à bandes) (one of a pair)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Seated Woman

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Sabine Houdon (1787–1836)

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Winter

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Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

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The Swing

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