id: 110060 accession number: 1928.661 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1928.661 updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:11.951000 Study for "The Romancer" (Le Conteur), c. 1716. Jean Antoine Watteau (French, 1684–1721). 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 title: Study for "The Romancer" (Le Conteur) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1716 creation date earliest: 1711 creation date latest: 1721 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: red chalk; red and black chalk (upper left figure) department: Drawings collection: DR - French type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Jean Antoine Watteau (French, 1684–1721) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: two sheets (joined) of yellow-beige(2) laid paper laid down on cream(3) wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830 opening date: 1932-12-07T05:00:00 Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 7, 1932-January 8, 1933). title: Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries opening date: 1934-11-09T05:00:00 Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 2, 1934). title: Fourth Anniversary Exhibition: Six Centuries of Drawings opening date: 1936-03-02T05:00:00 Fourth Anniversary Exhibition: Six Centuries of Drawings. Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT (organizer) (March 2-April 15, 1936). title: Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1939-01-04T05:00:00 Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 4-March 26, 1939). title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00 The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). title: Original Prints and Drawings by Masters of Berlin Museum Paintings opening date: 1949-01-11T05:00:00 Original Prints and Drawings by Masters of Berlin Museum Paintings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-March 27, 1949). title: Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition opening date: 1958-03-03T05:00:00 Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959). title: Italian and French Drawings opening date: 1959-10-13T04:00:00 Italian and French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 1959-February 2, 1960). title: The Eighteenth Century: One Hundred Drawings by One Hundred Artists opening date: 1961-01-24T05:00:00 The Eighteenth Century: One Hundred Drawings by One Hundred Artists. Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN (January 24-March 7, 1961). title: Drawings opening date: 1963-01-11T05:00:00 Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963). title: Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection opening date: 1965-05-06T04:00:00 Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965). title: Drawings opening date: 1968-06-11T04:00:00 Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-October 21, 1968). title: 18th Century Master Drawings opening date: 1981-10-06T04:00:00 18th Century Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 6-November 22, 1981). title: French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792 opening date: 1982-02-02T05:00:00 French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 2-May 16, 1982). title: Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1982-11-16T05:00:00 Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1982-January 9, 1983). title: Treasures on Paper opening date: 1988-05-10T04:00:00 Treasures on Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 10-July 24, 1988). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). title: French Drawings from the Collection opening date: 1994-12-13T05:00:00 French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995). title: Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints opening date: 2015-01-25T00:00:00 Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 25-May 17, 2015). title: Stories From Storage opening date: 2021-02-07T05:00:00 Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'The Mask of Comedy: The Art of Italian Commedia. J. B. Speed Memorial Art Museum, Louisville, KY (September 11 - November 4, 1990).', 'opening_date': '1990-09-11T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Watteau, 1684-1721. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (June 17 - September 23, 1984).', 'opening_date': '1984-06-17T00:00:00'} * {'description': '17th and 18th Century Genre and French Drawings. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 31 - August 19, 1979).', 'opening_date': '1979-05-31T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The 18th Century: 100 Drawings by 100 Artists. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (January 24 - March 7, 1961).', 'opening_date': '1961-01-24T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Fêtes Galantes. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (January 20 - March 5, 1956).', 'opening_date': '1956-01-20T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Eighteenth Century. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. (April 26 - May 31, 1950).', 'opening_date': '1950-04-26T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Drawings by Old and Modern Masters from the Collection. Cleveland Museum of Art (June 21 - September 30, 1938).', 'opening_date': '1938-06-21T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Forty Drawings from the Collection. Cleveland Museum of Art (May 21 - November 25, 1936).', 'opening_date': '1936-05-21T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Exhibition of Lace, Drawings, and Furniture from the Museum Collection. Cleveland Museum of Art (July 11 - September 3, 1934).', 'opening_date': '1934-07-11T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Andrew James, London date: ?-? footnotes: citations: Sarah Ann James, London date: ?-1891 footnotes: citations: (her sale, London, Christie's, June 22-23, 1891, no. 334) date: 1891 footnotes: citations: (Agnew, London) date: ?-? footnotes: citations: (Richard Owen, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) date: ?-1928 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1928- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS H. S. F. “‘The Romancer,’ a Drawing by Jean Antoine Watteau.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 16, no. 10 (1929): 179–81. page number: Reproduced: Front Matter; mentioned: pp. 179-181. url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25137253. H. S. F. "Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 19, no. 10 (1932): 166-75. page number: Mentioned p. 167 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25137511 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 591 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n111 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 133 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n157 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 133 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n157 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 175 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n195 The Mask of Comedy: The Art of Italian Commedia. Exh. Cat. Louisville, KY: J. B. Speed Memorial Art Museum, 1990. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 10 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1928.661/1928.661_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1928.661/1928.661_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1928.661/1928.661_full.tif