JEAN-ANTOINE WATTEAU
(1684 – Valenciennes – 1721 – Nogent-sure-Marne)
Standing Man in Persian Costume Seen from Behind
Red chalk on cream antique laid paper.
322 x 133 mm.
Inscriptions: In brown ink on verso of mount, bottom left: Watteau.
Provenance: General de la Villestreux (his ex libris on verso of old frame); A. Danlos in February of 1901 (inscription on verso of old frame): sale, Drouot, Paris, 15 April 1946, lot 119; Marcel Boussac, Paris; Boussac family, by descent; Didier Aaron, Inc., New York; acquired in 1995 (D-F-305/ 1.1995.46).
Literature: Parker and Mathey 1957, vol. 2, cat. no. 580, p.313; Roland Michel 1984, pp. 133-34; Margaret Morgan Grasselli in Washington et al. 1984, under cat. no. 49, p. 112, fig. 1; Grasselli 1988, p. 170; Rosenberg and Prat 1996, vol. 1, pp. 448-49, cat. no. 285.