Art Institute of Chicago
Italian Comedians
Jean Antoine WatteauLinkedCulture matchlcp-319ad702b014
- Date
- 1719/20
- Medium
- Red, black, and white chalks, with stumping, on cream laid paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 80066
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- Credit line
- Margaret Day Blake Collection
- Provenance
- Andrew James (died before 1857); by descent to his daughter, Sarah Ann James, London; sold, Christie's, London, June 22-23, 1891, lot 341, to Bourgeois [according to Rosenberg and Prat 1996]. Camille Groult (died 1908); by descent to his son, Jean Groult (died 1951); by descent to his son, Pierre Bordeaux-Groult [according to Rosenberg and Prat 1996]. Sold by Wildenstein and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1954.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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