Deux études d'un joueur de musette

Watteau, Jean-Antoine (1684-1721)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
1715
Height:
27.0 cm  (10 5/8 in.)
Width:
22.0 cm  (8 11/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
black chalk and blood on gray paper heightened with white
Place of creation:
Paris (France)

Additional titles

Two studies of a musette player

    Item location

  • Musée du Louvre
    Département des arts graphiques[Museum inv. no.: INV33382]

Description

Drawing engraved by J. G. Romain. This drawing has been used for "L'accordée de village" (London, Sloane Museum), "Les bergers" (Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg) and "Les fêtes vénitiennes" (Edinburgh, National Gallery of Art)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Musette [3768]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1
image link 2

Bibliographic references

Watteau 1684-1721, catalogue d`exposition par Margaret Morgan Grasselli et Pierre Rosenberg, 1984-1985 (Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux, 1984) p. 126, n° 56, and p. 543.

Gétreau, Florence. "Watteau et sa génération", Imago Musicae 4 (1987) 300-302, fig. 1. RILM 1988-10392.

RIdIM record id

11