The Wedding Procession

c. 1712

Antoine Watteau

Artist, French, 1684 - 1721

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red chalk over red chalk counterproof on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Margaret Mellon Hitchcock Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 22.2 x 17.1 cm (8 3/4 x 6 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2000.8.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rosenberg/Prat 1996, no. 21

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Possibly M. Aubert; (sale, Paris, 2 March 1786, no. 90). Émile Galichon; (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 10 May 1875, no. 173); Louis Galichon, Paris (Lugt 1060); (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 4-9 March 1895, no. 169); Alfred Louis Lebeuf de Montgermont [1841-1918], Paris; (his estate sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 16-19 June 1919, no. 292); Gentile di Giuseppe; Private Collection, France; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 9 June 1955, no. 70, as coming from the château of Haut Buc in Seine-et-Oise). Curtis O. Baer [1898-1976], New Rochelle, New York, from 1957; his son, George Baer, Atlanta and Mexico City, from 1976; (Jill Newhouse, New York, 1999); purchased 1999 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1958

  • Drawings from the Collection of Curtis O. Baer, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1958, no. 40 (cat. by Agnes Mongan).

1983

  • The Rococo Age: French Masterpieces of the Eighteenth Century, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1983, no. 58.

1985

  • Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso, The Curtis O. Baer Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Indianapolis Museum of Art; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD; Frederick Wight Gallery, University of California at Los Angeles, 1985-1987, no. 58 (cat. by Eric M. Zafran).

2023

  • Claude Gillot: Satire in the Age of Reason, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2023.

Bibliography

1875

  • Goncourt, Edmond de. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, dessiné, et gravé d'Antoine Watteau. Paris, 1875: under no. 682.

1957

  • Parker, Karl Theodore, and Jacques Mathey. Antoine Watteau: catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessiné. Paris, 1957: no. 141.

1960

  • Mathey, Jacques. "Drawings by Watteau and Gillot." The Burlington Magazine 102 (1960): 357.

1970

  • Eidelberg, Martin. "P. A. Quillard, an Assistant to Watteau." The Art Quarterly 33 (1970): 59, fig. 29.

1981

  • Eidelberg, Martin. "Quillard as Draughtsman." Master Drawings 19 (1981): 31, fig. 3.

1984

  • Roland Michel, Marianne. Watteau: Un artiste au XVIIIe siecle. Paris, 1984: 135-136, fig. 89.

1985

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "News." The Watteau Society Bulletin 2 (1985): 44.

1987

  • Roland Michel, Marianne. "Watteau et les 'Figures de différents caractères'" in Antoine Watteau (1684 - 1721) The Painter, His Age, and His Legend. Paris, 1987: 120 and note 4.

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "The Drawings of Antoine Watteau: stylistic development and problems of chronology." 3 vols. Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1987: 142-143, 148, no. 93, fig. 133.

1996

  • Rosenberg, Pierre and Louis-Antoine Prat. Antoine Watteau 1684-1721. Catalogue raisonné des dessins. Milan: Leonardo Editore, 1996: no. 21.

1999

  • Wintermute, Alan. "Le Pèlerinage à Watteau, An Introduction to the Drawings of Watteau and His Circle." In exh. cat. Watteau and His World, French Drawings from 1700 to 1750, New York and Ottawa, 1999-2000, 38-39, fig. 35.

2000

  • Rosenberg, Pierre. From Drawing to Painting: Poussin, Watteau, Fragonard, David & Ingres. Princeton, 2000: 70-71, fig. 85.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right in red chalk: Watteau

Wikidata ID

Q64536240

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