Actor Standing with Head Turned to the Right

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Actor Standing with Head Turned to the Right

Antoine WatteauLinkedCulture matchlcp-823f5f6ac0d1

Date
1719–20
Medium
Red chalk
Department
European Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID
1754

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Antoine Watteau’s delicate chalk drawings and poetic, sparkling cabinet paintings have been celebrated since the moment he made them. He filled sketchbooks with figure studies—countless women and men in graceful poses and stylish clothes—to create the gorgeous cast that inhabits the alluring world of his pictures. The young man in this study appears as a flirtatious actor in one of the artist’s late paintings. Tipping his head, bowing to his left, and raising his cape, the figure strikes a theatrical pose that distills his amorous longing. The atmospheric treatment of light and shadow and the generalization of forms toward abstraction are characteristic of Watteau’s later draftsmanship. France, Europe

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The John R. Van Derlip Fund

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