Identification and Creation Object Number 1964.14 People Jean

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Identification and Creation
Object Number
1964.14
People
Jean-Antoine Watteau, French (Valenciennes 1684 -
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1721 Nogent-sur-Marne)
Title
Three Views of a Military Drummer
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1713
Culture
French
Physical Descriptions
Medium
Red chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in
black ink, laid down on off-white card
Dimensions
15.5 x 19.6 cm (6 1/8 x 7 11/16 in.)
Provenance
Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine (1745-1830), Paris;
to his son, Louis-Pierre-Martin Norblin de la Gourdaine
(1781-1854), Paris, by descent; to Baronne de Conantré,
Paris; to her daughter, Baronne de Rublé, Paris, by
descent; to her daughter, Mme de Witte (nee Éliane
Isnards), Paris, by descent; to her daughter, Marquise
de Bryas (Orange) (nee Germaine de Witte) (d. 1958),
Suze-la-Rousse. [Galerie Cailleux, Paris], sold; to John
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S. Newberry, 1958, New York, gift; to Fogg Art Museum,
1964
Acquisition and Rights
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of John S.
Newberry
Accession Year
1964
Object Number
1964.14
Division
European and American Art
Contact
[email protected]
Publication History
Edmond de Goncourt, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre
peint, dessiné et gravé d'Antoine Watteau, Rapilly
(Paris, 1875), under cat. nos. 413, 482, 617
Jean Cailleux, "Four Studies of Soliders by Watteau: An
Essay on the Chronology of Military Subjects", The
Burlington Magazine, The Burlington Magazine
Publications, Ltd. (London, 1959), vol. 101, no. 678-79,
September-October, n.p., pp. ii-v, vii, fig. 11, repr.
Agnes Mongan, Great Drawings of All Time, ed. Ira
Moskowitz, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York,
1962), cat. no. 681, n.p., repr.
Agnes Mongan, "Three Views of a Drummer by Antoine
Watteau", Acquisitions (Fogg Art Museum), Fogg Art
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Museum (Cambridge, 1964), pp. 42-48, pp. 42-48, fig.
1, repr.
Agnes Mongan, "A Watteau Drawing after Rubens",
Acquisitions (Fogg Art Museum), Fogg Art Museum
(Cambridge, 1965), pp. 161-64, p. 161
Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six
Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum ,
exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo,
1979), cat. no. 74, n.p., pl. 74, repr.
Debora Mayer, "Technical Examination of Red Chalk"
(thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for
Conservation and Technical Studies, 1982),
Unpublished, pp. 43, 58
Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Pierre Rosenberg, and
Nicole Parmantier, Watteau 1684-1721, exh. cat.,
National Gallery of Art and Editions de la Réunion des
Musées Nationaux (Washington and Paris, 1984), cat.
no. 26, pp. 97, 104, 283, fig. 5, repr.
Marianne Roland Michel, Watteau: Un artiste au XVIIIe
siècle, Flammarion (Paris, 1984), p. 169, fig. 159, repr.
Martin Eidelberg, "Review: Watteau, 1684-1721",
Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (1986),
vol. 23-24, no. 1, 1985-86, pp. 102-106, p. 105
Edgar Munhall, Little Notes Concerning Watteau's
Portal of Valenciennes, The Frick Collection (New York,
1992), p. 25, fig. 17, repr.
Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Antoine
Watteau 1684-1721: Catalogue raisonné des dessins,
Leonardo Arte (Milan, 1996), vol. 1, cat. no. 210, pp.
332-33, repr.; under cat. no. 20, fig. 20b, p. 36, repr.
Suzanne Boorsch and John Marciari, Master Drawings
from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat., Yale
University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT, 2006), under
cat. no. 62, pp. 188, 189 n. 9, fig. 62A, repr.
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Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, "Drawing Time", October, MIT
Press (Cambridge, MA, 2015), no. 151, Winter, pp. 3-42,
pp. 13-14, 34-35, repr.
Aaron Wile, Watteau's Soldiers: Scenes of Military Life
in Eighteenth-Century France, exh. cat., The Frick
Collection (New York, 2016), cat. no. 21, pp. 21, 26, 109,
repr.
Exhibition History
European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the
Collection of the Fogg Art Museum , National Museum
of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
HAA 271x The Origins of Modernity: The "New" 18th
Century Rotation #2: Large Niche (S426A) Spring 2011,
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum,
Cambridge, 03/11/2011 - 06/18/2011
Watteau's Soldiers: Scenes of Military Life in
Eighteenth-Century France, The Frick Collection, New
York, 07/12/2016 - 10/03/2016
Subjects and Contexts
Collection Highlights
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