Study for "The Romancer" (Le Conteur)
c. 1716
Jean Antoine Watteau
Jean Antoine Watteau (French, 1684–1721)
Drawings
Study for "The Romancer" (Le Conteur), c. 1716. Jean Antoine Watteau (French, 1684–1721). Red chalk; red and black chalk (upper left figure); sheet: 35 x 27.5 cm (13 3/4 x 10 13/16 in.); secondary support: 35.1 x 27.8 cm (13 13/16 x 10 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1928.661 Jean Antoine Watteau likely drew this sheet from a combination of life study and imagination, working from a model and adding other elements of his own creation.
- Maker/Artist
- Watteau, Jean-Antoine
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- red chalk; red and black chalk (upper left figure)
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 35 x 27.5 cm (13 3/4 x 10 13/16 in.); Secondary Support: 35.1 x 27.8 cm (13 13/16 x 10 15/16 in.)
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1928.661
- Credit Line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Exhibitions
- Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830, Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Fourth Anniversary Exhibition: Six Centuries of Drawings, Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection, The Silver Jubilee Exhibition, Original Prints and Drawings by Masters of Berlin Museum Paintings, Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition, Italian and French Drawings, The Eighteenth Century: One Hundred Drawings by One Hundred Artists, Drawings, Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection, Drawings, 18th Century Master Drawings, French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792, Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Treasures on Paper, Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum, French Drawings from the Collection, Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints, Stories From Storage, <em>The Mask of Comedy: The Art of Italian Commedia. </em>J. B. Speed Memorial Art Museum, Louisville, KY (September 11 - November 4, 1990)., <em>Watteau, 1684-1721. </em>National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (June 17 - September 23, 1984)., <em>17th and 18th Century Genre and French Drawings</em>. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 31 - August 19, 1979)., <em>The 18th Century: 100 Drawings by 100 Artists. </em>University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (January 24 - March 7, 1961)., <em>Fêtes Galantes. </em>Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (January 20 - March 5, 1956)., <em>The Eighteenth Century. </em>Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. (April 26 - May 31, 1950)., <em>Drawings by Old and Modern Masters from the Collection</em>. Cleveland Museum of Art (June 21 - September 30, 1938)., <em>Forty Drawings from the Collection. </em>Cleveland Museum of Art (May 21 - November 25, 1936)., <em>Exhibition of Lace, Drawings, and Furniture from the Museum Collection</em>. Cleveland Museum of Art (July 11 - September 3, 1934).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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