# The Old Savoyard, in 18th-century France

Antoine Watteau painted this in about 1715, aged about 26. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Our note:

> An elderly, bearded man carries a crate and pack on his back, sketched from life in red and black chalk. He is a Savoyard, one of the poor itinerant performers from the Alpine region of Savoy who tramped the streets of Paris with peep-show boxes or performing marmots.

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## The work

- Date: c. 1715
- Medium: Red and black chalk on cream laid paper
- Dimensions: 35.9 × 22.1 cm (14 3/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
- Type: Drawing and Watercolor
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1964.74
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Antoine Watteau](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/antoine-watteau), French, 1684–1721

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.

4 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [More by Antoine Watteau](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/antoine-watteau?hang=750) (4 works)
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