Study for "The Romancer" (Le Conteur)
Cleveland Museum of Art

Study for "The Romancer" (Le Conteur)

Jean-Antoine Watteau (French, 1684–1721) · c. 1716

red chalk; red and black chalk (upper left figure)
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

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.

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