Artwork Details
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Dimensions
5-11/16 x 8-1/16 in. (image) 6 x 9 in. (sheet) 17-7/8 x 20-7/8 x 1-1/8 in. (framed)
Mark Description
Inscribed: rector, lower right corner: {possible initials}
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The Clowes Collection
Copyright
Collection
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
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Provenance
Eugène Rodrigues [1853-1928], Paris. {1} Possibly (Ivan Podgoursky [1901-1962], New York);{2} Dr. George Henry Alexander Clowes [1877-1958], Indianapolis, before 1963;{3} Clowes Fund Collection, Indianapolis, until 2010 and on long-term loan to the Indianapolis Museum of Art since 1971 (C10083); given to the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2010. {1}At lower right the drawing bears the collector's mark of Eugène Rodrigues, a Parisian lawyer and art collector (see Lugt 897). {2} Count Ivan Podgoursky, at times affiliated with Demotte Gallery, New York, sold many works of art to G.H.A. Clowes in the 1940s and 1950s, including another chalk drawing attributed at the time to Watteau. For information on Podgoursky, see his obituary in the New York Times, 23 April 1962. {3}This drawing is included in Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Antoine Watteau 1684-1721 Catalogue raisonné des dessins, volume 1, Milan 1996, no. 68. Here it states that it entered the Clowes Collection by 1955 with reference to a letter from Walter Friedlaender to Dr Clowes of that date. There is no such letter, only an attestation dated 1955 by Friedlaender on the back of a photograph (which was likely given to Dr. Clowes by the dealer at the time of purchase). The first exhibition to include this drawing was Northern European Painting - The Clowes Fund Collection, Indiana University Museum of Art, Bloomington, Indiana, 1963, catalogue no. 12.
Exhibition History
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Watteau's Soldiers: Scenes from Military Life in Eighteenth-Century France
The Frick Collection
July 12, 2016 - October 3, 2016
Watteau and His World: French Drawing from 1700 to 1750
National Gallery of Canada
February 11, 2000 - May 8, 2000
Watteau and His World: French Drawing from 1700 to 1750
The Frick Collection
October 19, 1999 - January 9, 2000
Northern European Painting, The Clowes Fund Collection
Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
1963 - 1963
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