Seated Woman Looking Down
Antoine Watteau · c. 1720/1721 · red and black chalk with stumping on laid paper, laid down with later framing line in brown ink
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About this picture
Seated Woman Looking Down is a public-domain drawing by Antoine Watteau, dated c. 1720/1721. Red and black chalk with stumping on laid paper, laid down with later framing line in brown ink. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Seated Woman Looking Down” (c. 1720/1721) is a Watteau subject, a gathering in a park, or a drawing for one. A print may be a later plate after the painting.
About the artist
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) painted fêtes galantes: elegant figures in parks, with a theatrical melancholy. Many sheets are drawings or later prints after him.
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