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Head of an Old Man

Artist: Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684 - 1721)

Location: Ashmolean Museum

Date: 1710

Materials: black & red chalks, with white, on buff paper

Dimensions: 29 x 21 cm

Grant:

Amount Paid: £200 (Total: £350)

Vendor: Leo Franklun

Review number: 1789 (1955)

Provenance:
Crusius collection.

Description:
A newly discovered drawing of an old man with his head raised, from the same model as the de Roqueplan-Landelle picture given to the Louvre in 1921, and which seems to confirm that the Louvre painting is by Watteau.

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