Four Studies of a Woman's Head and Two of a Seated Woman

Four Studies of a Woman's Head and Two of a Seated Woman

RP-T-1953-183

Studieblad met vier vrouwenhoofden en twee zittende vrouwen ten voeten uit.

draftsman (artist): Jean Antoine Watteau

1705 - 1721

penseel in rood, bruin en wit, grafiet, en rood en zwart krijt

height 229 mm x width 350 mm

Public domain

…; sale, Madame la Marquise de Ganay-Ridgway (-1921), Paris (Galerie Georges Petit), 8 May 1922 sqq., no. 27, frs 95,000;{Copy RKD.}…; purchased from the estate of Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, en bloc, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz, 1940;{Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1952;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1960

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Renaud Temperini, Watteau, Milaan en Parijs, 2002, p. 19.

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