Jean Antoine Watteau Valenciennes 1684 - 1721 Nogent-sur-Marne

Possibly sold by the artist's friend Spoëde for 60 Livres to
Possibly Pierre Sirois, Paris, thence by descent to his son-in-law
Edme-François Gersaint, Paris, 1727;
Danlos Collection, Paris;
By whom sold, Paris, March 2, 1867, no. 36;
Eugène Kraemer, Paris, by 1912;
By whom sold, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, May 5-6, 1913, lot 72, there purchased by
Van den Berg, Paris, until 1929;
E.W. Edwards, Cincinnati, 1932, by whom sold to
Newhouse Galleries, Inc., New York in 1952;
Anonymous sale ("The Property of a Gentleman"), London, Sotheby's, June 24, 1965, lot 93;
Paul Martin;
By whom sold, Versailles, May 20, 1965, no. 22;
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, January 19, 1984, lot 38.

E. de Goncourt, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre d'Antoine Watteau, Paris 1875, no. 53;
Comte de Caylus, Vies d'Artists du XVIIIe siecle. discours sur la Peinture et la Sculpture, (La vie d'Antoine Watteau first read at the Academie Royale, Paris, on February 3, 1748), Paris 1910 ed., pp. 7-8, note 2;
E.H. Zimmermann, Watteau (Klassiker der Kunst), 1912, reproduced p. 179;
E. Dacier & A. Vuaflart, Jean de Jullienne et les graveurs de Watteau, Paris 1921-22, Vol. I, p. 263, no. 147, vol. III, p. 72, Vol. IV, reproduced pl. 147;
L. Reau in L. Dimier, Les peintres francais du XIIIe siecle, Paris 1928, vol. I, p. 33, no. 41;
H. Vollmer in U. Thieme and F. Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Kunstler, Leipzig 1942, Vol. XXXV, p. 191;
H. Adhemar & R. Huyghe, Watteau, sa vie, son eouvre, Paris 1950, p. 206, no. 36, reproduced pl. 17;
E.C. Montagni, L'Opera Completa di Watteau, Milan 1968, p. 96, no. 43, engraving reproduced;
M. Morgan Grasselli & P. Rosenberg, Watteau 1684-1721, Washington D.C. 1984, exhbition catalogue, under cat. no. 6, p. 254-255;
M. Rolan-Michel, Watteau, An Artist of the Eighteenth Century, London 1984, passim.