Jean-Antoine Watteau

Possibly bore the mark of the mount-maker Adolphe Stoll (L.2786c, recorded by Rosenberg and Prat as present on the mount, but no longer visible);

Camille Groult (1837-1908),

by decent to his son, Jean Groult (1868-1951),

by decent to his son, Pierre Bordeaux-Groult (1916-2007), Paris, by 1957;

private collection, Paris;

with Didier Aaron, Paris, London, and New York, 2005,

where acquired by Diane A. Nixon

New York, The Morgan Library & Museum; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings, 2007, no. 48 (entry by Margaret Morgan Grasselli);

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Watteau, Music, and Theater, 2009, no. 30 (entry by Perrin Stein);

Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art; Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Drawn to Excellence: Renaissance to Romantic Drawings from a Private Collection, 2012-2013, no. 63

K.T. Parker & J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau. Catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné, Paris 1957, vol. 2, p. 356, no. 814;

A.-P. de Mirimonde, 'Les Sujets musicaux chez Antoine Watteau', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, November 1961, p. 285, no. 5;

P. Rosenberg & L.-A. Prat, Antoine Watteau 1684-1721: Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan 1996, vol. 2, pp. 1016-17, no. 597