Italian Comedians
Jean Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721)
1719/20
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Materials & printing
Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
Shipping & returns
Made to order and delivered in 5–8 business days (2–4 to print, 3–4 in transit). US shipping only for now. Because each print is made for your order, all sales are final — but if it arrives damaged or defective, send us a photo within 14 days and we’ll replace it free. Full policy.
Why is it this affordable?
A thin, flat margin on every piece — just enough to keep the store running. Most of what you pay is the print itself. We only sell sizes that reproduce at full quality, and we don’t mark up the large sizes the way most shops do.
Details
- Medium
- Red, black, and white chalks, with stumping, on cream laid paper
- Original size
- 26.1 × 40.3 cm (10 5/16 × 15 7/8 in.)
Museum record · 3 owners · 10 exhibitions
Provenance
- Andrew James (died before 1857); by descent to his daughter, Sarah Ann James, London; sold, Christie's, London, June 22-23, 1891, lot 341, to Bourgeois.
- Camille Groult (died 1908); by descent to his son, Jean Groult (died 1951); by descent to his son, Pierre Bordeaux-Groult.
- Sold by Wildenstein and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1954.
Exhibitions
- London, South Kensington Museum, "Twenty-Six Drawing by Watteau," 1878.
- New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "French Drawings from American Collections," 1958-1959; traveled to Rotterdam, Museum Boymans; and Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie.
- New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., as "Four Studies of Italian Actors." The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake," April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p..
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," January 24-March 28, 1976.
- Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p..
- Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977.
- Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "Watteau," 1984-1985.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, November 1993-January 1994.
- New York, The Phillips Collection, "Watteau and His World: French Drawing from 1700-1750," the Frick Collection, New York, N.Y., October 19, 1999-January 9, 2000, and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, February 11-May 8, 2000..
- New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Watteau, Music, and Theater,” 9/22/09–11/29/09 and 87, cat. #42, cat. by Katherine Baetjer et al New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Watteau, Music, and Theater,” September 22–November 29, 2009 and 86, cat. # 32, cat. by Georgia J. Cowart et. al.
