Jean Antoine Watteau

Sale, Paris, B[ailly or Bizemont] Hôtel Drouot, 16 June 1904, part of lot 15;
sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 6 November 1964, lot 102;
Jean de Cayeux de Sénarpont (1913-2009), Paris (L.4461);
sale, New York, Sotheby’s, 16 January 1986, lot 104,
where acquired by the present owner

E. de Goncourt, Catalogue raisonne de l’oeuvre peint, dessine, et grave d’Antoine Watteau, Paris 1875, under no.742;
K.T. Parker and J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau, Paris 1957, vol. I, cat.160, reproduced;
M. Eidelberg, Watteau’s Drawings …, New York-London 1977, note 23, fig.59;
M. Roland-Michel, Watteau an Artist of Eighteenth Century, London 1984, pp.240-241, fig.241;
M. Morgan Grasselli, The Drawings of Antoine Watteau, Cambridge 1987, vol. I, no.83, fig.217;
M. Morgan Grasselli, The Watteau Society Bulletin, 1994, p.56;
P. Rosenberg and L.A. Prat, Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721, Catalogue Raisonné des
Dessins, Milan 1996, vol. I, pp.74-75, cat.45, reproduced

Paris, Galerie Cailleux, Watteau et sa génération, 1968, no.31