Italianate Landscape
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Circle of Jean-Antoine Watteau
(Valenciennes, France, 1684–Nogent-sur-Marne, near Paris, France, 1721)
NationalityFrench, Europe
Datecirca 1790-1730
MediumRed chalk on cream antique laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 11 9/16 × 17 5/16 in. (29.3 × 44 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Museum Fund, 1982.725
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Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number1982.725
On View
Not on viewA group of drawings by Watteau in red chalk copy earlier Italian sheets in the great collection of his patron Pierre Crozat. The symmetrical structure and distinct planes of this composition derive from seventeenth-century Roman examples. The touch, however, is a bit tentative––note the uncertain path of many lines––and the handling is uniform, suggesting that the drawing was created by another artist in the circle of Watteau.
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