Figure Sketches and a Copy After a Sculpted Head [verso]

c. 1715/1716

Details

Title: Figure Sketches and a Copy After a Sculpted Head [verso]
Date Created: c. 1715/1716
Physical Dimensions: overall: 15.6 x 21.1 cm (6 1/8 x 8 5/16 in.)
Provenance: De Wailly, Paris; (sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 17-18 February 1853, no. 159); Baron Louis Auguste de Schwiter [1805-1889] (Lugt 1768) (his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 20-21 April 1883, no. 174); Henri Michel-Lévy (his sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 12-13 May 1919, no. 135); Mme. Piez, Paris, by 1957; (Colnaghi, London, 1959); private collection, Great Britain; (sale Monte Carlo, Sotheby's, 11 February 1979, no. 51); Mr. and Mrs. Paul Shepard Morgan, Duxbury, MA; gift to NGA, 1991.
Medium: red chalk on brown laid paper, the sculpted head likely not by Watteau

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