{"data": {"id": 110060, "accession_number": "1928.661", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Study for \"The Romancer\" (Le Conteur), c. 1716. Jean-Antoine Watteau (French, 1684\u20131721). Red chalk; red and black chalk (upper left figure); sheet: 35 x 27.5 cm (13 3/4 x 10 13/16 in.); secondary support: 35.1 x 27.8 cm (13 13/16 x 10 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1928.661", "current_location": null, "title": "Study for \"The Romancer\" (Le Conteur)", "creation_date": "c. 1716", "creation_date_earliest": 1711, "creation_date_latest": 1721, "artists_tags": ["male"], "culture": ["France"], "technique": "red chalk; red and black chalk (upper left figure)", "support_materials": [{"description": "two sheets (joined) of yellow-beige(2) laid paper laid down on cream(3) wove paper", "watermarks": []}], "department": "Drawings", "collection": "DR - French", "type": "Drawing", "measurements": "Sheet: 35 x 27.5 cm (13 3/4 x 10 13/16 in.); Secondary Support: 35.1 x 27.8 cm (13 13/16 x 10 15/16 in.)", "dimensions": {"sheet": {"height": 0.35, "height_inch": 13, "height_inch_fraction": 0.75, "width": 0.275, "width_inch": 10, "width_inch_fraction": 0.8125}, "secondary support": {"height": 0.351, "height_inch": 13, "height_inch_fraction": 0.8125, "width": 0.278, "width_inch": 10, "width_inch_fraction": 0.9375}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 350090, "title": "Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830", "description": "<i>Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 7, 1932-January 8, 1933).", "opening_date": "1932-12-07T05:00:00"}, {"id": 346817, "title": "Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries", "description": "<i>Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 2, 1934).", "opening_date": "1934-11-09T05:00:00"}, {"id": 361222, "title": "Fourth Anniversary Exhibition: Six Centuries of Drawings", "description": "<i>Fourth Anniversary Exhibition: Six Centuries of Drawings</i>. Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT (organizer) (March 2-April 15, 1936).", "opening_date": "1936-03-02T05:00:00"}, {"id": 346109, "title": "Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection", "description": "<i>Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 4-March 26, 1939).", "opening_date": "1939-01-04T05:00:00"}, {"id": 312341, "title": "The Silver Jubilee Exhibition", "description": "<i>The Silver Jubilee Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).", "opening_date": "1941-06-23T04:00:00"}, {"id": 361361, "title": "Original Prints and Drawings by Masters of Berlin Museum Paintings", "description": "<i>Original Prints and Drawings by Masters of Berlin Museum Paintings</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-March 27, 1949).", "opening_date": "1949-01-11T05:00:00"}, {"id": 301184, "title": "Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition", "description": "<i>Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).", "opening_date": "1958-03-03T05:00:00"}, {"id": 301678, "title": "Italian and French Drawings", "description": "<i>Italian and French Drawings</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 1959-February 2, 1960).", "opening_date": "1959-10-13T04:00:00"}, {"id": 361403, "title": "The Eighteenth Century: One Hundred Drawings by One Hundred Artists", "description": "<i>The Eighteenth Century: One Hundred Drawings by One Hundred Artists</i>. Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN (January 24-March 7, 1961).", "opening_date": "1961-01-24T05:00:00"}, {"id": 304645, "title": "Drawings", "description": "<i>Drawings</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).", "opening_date": "1963-01-11T05:00:00"}, {"id": 350269, "title": "Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection", "description": "<i>Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965).", "opening_date": "1965-05-06T04:00:00"}, {"id": 351191, "title": "Drawings", "description": "<i>Drawings</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-October 21, 1968).", "opening_date": "1968-06-11T04:00:00"}, {"id": 304545, "title": "18th Century Master Drawings", "description": "<i>18th Century Master Drawings</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 6-November 22, 1981).", "opening_date": "1981-10-06T04:00:00"}, {"id": 309577, "title": "French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792", "description": "<i>French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 2-May 16, 1982).", "opening_date": "1982-02-02T05:00:00"}, {"id": 309584, "title": "Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art", "description": "<i>Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1982-January 9, 1983).", "opening_date": "1982-11-16T05:00:00"}, {"id": 311734, "title": "Treasures on Paper", "description": "<i>Treasures on Paper</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 10-July 24, 1988).", "opening_date": "1988-05-10T04:00:00"}, {"id": 311444, "title": "Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum", "description": "<i>Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).", "opening_date": "1991-06-07T04:00:00"}, {"id": 311635, "title": "French Drawings from the Collection", "description": "<i>French Drawings from the Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).", "opening_date": "1994-12-13T05:00:00"}, {"id": 203744, "title": "Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints", "description": "<i>Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 25-May 17, 2015).", "opening_date": "2015-01-25T00:00:00"}, {"id": 383281, "title": "Stories from Storage", "description": "<i>Stories from Storage</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).", "opening_date": "2021-02-06T05:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "<em>The Mask of Comedy: The Art of Italian Commedia. </em>J. B. Speed Memorial Art Museum, Louisville, KY (September 11 - November 4, 1990).", "opening_date": "1990-09-11T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>Watteau, 1684-1721. </em>National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (June 17 - September 23, 1984).", "opening_date": "1984-06-17T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>17th and 18th Century Genre and French Drawings</em>. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 31 - August 19, 1979).", "opening_date": "1979-05-31T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>The 18th Century: 100 Drawings by 100 Artists. </em>University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (January 24 - March 7, 1961).", "opening_date": "1961-01-24T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>F\u00eates Galantes. </em>Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (January 20 - March 5, 1956).", "opening_date": "1956-01-20T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>The Eighteenth Century. </em>Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. (April 26 - May 31, 1950).", "opening_date": "1950-04-26T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>Drawings by Old and Modern Masters from the Collection</em>. Cleveland Museum of Art (June 21 - September 30, 1938).", "opening_date": "1938-06-21T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>Forty Drawings from the Collection. </em>Cleveland Museum of Art (May 21 - November 25, 1936).", "opening_date": "1936-05-21T00:00:00"}, {"description": "<em>Exhibition of Lace, Drawings, and Furniture from the Museum Collection</em>. Cleveland Museum of Art (July 11 - September 3, 1934).", "opening_date": "1934-07-11T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "Andrew James, London", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?-?", "sortorder": null}, {"description": "Sarah Ann James, London", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?-1891", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "(her sale, London, Christie's, June 22-23, 1891, no. 334)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1891", "sortorder": 3}, {"description": "(Agnew, London)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?-?", "sortorder": 4}, {"description": "(Richard Owen, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?-1928", "sortorder": 5}, {"description": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1928-", "sortorder": 6}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Jean Antoine Watteau likely drew this sheet from a combination of life study and imagination, working from a model and adding other elements of his own creation.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "This sheet was a preparatory study for the painting <em>The Romancer</em>. An actor in the costume of Mezzetin, a stock character of the commedia dell\u2019arte (a type of satirical theatrical entertainment of Italian origin popular in aristocratic circles in 18th-century France), interrupts a guitarist with a bold sexual advance. Another actor dressed as the French pantomime stock character Pierrot peers lasciviously over the young musician\u2019s shoulder. A more detailed study of Pierrot\u2019s head occupies the upper left corner of the sheet, demonstrating Jean Antoine Watteau\u2019s experimentation with how to most effectively depict a lecherous gaze.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60753702"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1928.661-study-for-the-romanc"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "H. S. F. \u201c\u2018The Romancer,\u2019 a Drawing by Jean Antoine Watteau.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 16, no. 10 (1929): 179\u201381.", "page_number": "Reproduced: Front Matter; mentioned: pp. 179-181.", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25137253."}, {"citation": "H. S. F. \"Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 19, no. 10 (1932): 166-75.", "page_number": "Mentioned p. 167", "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/25137511"}, {"citation": "Milliken, William. \"Silver Jubilee Exhibition.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>28, no.6 (June 1941): 88-108", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 91; Reproduced: p. 104", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25140932"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 591", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n111"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 133", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n157"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 133", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n157"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 175", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n195"}, {"citation": "Borowitz, Helen O. \u201cThe Watteau and Chardin of Marcel Proust.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 69, no. 1 (January 1982): 18\u201335.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 24-25, fig. 12", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159754"}, {"citation": "Goldfarb, Hilliard T. \u201cBoucher\u2019s \u2018Pastoral Scene with Family at Rest\u2019 and the Image of the Pastoral in Eighteenth-Century France.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 71, no. 3 (March 1984): 82\u201389.", "page_number": "MEntioned and reproduced: p. 86, fig. 9", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159852"}, {"citation": "Borowitz, Helen O. \u201cThree Guitars: Reflections of Italian Comedy in Watteau, Daumier, and Picasso.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 71, no. 4 (April 1984): 116\u2013129.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 118, fig. 4", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159858"}, {"citation": "<em>The Mask of Comedy: The Art of Italian Commedia</em>. 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