# Seated Woman, in Drawings of the 18th century

Antoine Watteau drew this in 1716–17, aged about 32. It is now at The Met in New York.

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## The work

- Date: 1716–17
- Medium: Black, red and white chalk
- Dimensions: 9 7/16 x 5 7/16 in. (24 x 13.8 cm)
- Type: Drawings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.1.763
- 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=751) (4 works)
- [More French eighteenth century](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/french-eighteenth-century?hang=751) (35 works)
- [18th-century France](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/18-france?hang=751) (75 works)

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