Two Studies of a Seated Woman

• Two Studies of a Seated Woman
• Two Studies of a Woman Seated on the Ground

RP-T-1953-181

Taking advantage of the sheet’s horizontal format, Watteau drew the same woman twice, shifting only his viewpoint and distance from the model. The complex folds of her dress are executed in a great economy of means – with nervous hatching and blank reserves. Watteau made hundreds of similar figure studies, which he often reused in his paintings.

Marianne Roland Michel, 'The Rosenberg-Prat Catalogue of Watteau's Drawings', The Burlington Magazine 140 (1998) nr. 1148, p. 752, fig. 45.

draughtsman: Jean Antoine Watteau

1709 - 1721

rood krijt op papier

height 202 mm x width 339 mm

Public domain

Inv.; collection David David-Weill (1871-1952), Neuilly sur Seine, 1928;{Coll. cat. Weill III, 1928, pp. 505-6.}…; purchased from the estate of Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, en bloc, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz, 1940;{Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1952;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1960

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Marianne Roland Michel, 'The Rosenberg-Prat Catalogue of Watteau's Drawings', The Burlington Magazine 140 (1998) nr. 1148, p. 752, fig. 45.

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