Seated Woman1716–17
Antoine Watteau drew this in 1716–17, aged about 32. It is now at The Met in New York. More about this work
About this work
Antoine Watteau drew this in 1716–17, aged about 32. It is now at The Met in New York.
How it was made
- Chalk
- Natural black, red and white chalks. Used together on toned paper they could give the warmth of flesh with very little effort, and they were favourites for studies from life.
Antoine Watteau
French, 1684–1721 · Born in Valenciennes; died in Nogent-sur-Marne.
Watteau came to Paris from Valenciennes, worked with the theatre painter Claude Gillot and the decorator Claude Audran, and studied Rubens’s Medici cycle at the Luxembourg Palace. In 1717 the Academy received him with a new category, the fête galante, for his Pilgrimage to Cythera: elegant figures in parkland, often in theatre costume, touched with melancholy. His chalk drawings, frequently in red, black and white, are among the finest of the century. He died of tuberculosis at thirty-six.
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Rights and the museum’s record
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- Object number
- 1975.1.763
- Credit
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Type
- Drawings
- Department
- Robert Lehman Collection
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
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