Two Studies of a Dancer, Raising Her Skirt in Her Two Hands
Jean Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721)
1712/13
- Medium
- Red chalk on cream laid paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 17.6 × 13.3 cm (6 15/16 × 5 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Regenstein Collection Endowment
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
The Art Institute boasts a small but choice selection of drawings by Antoine Watteau. This early example of his virtuoso draftsmanship in red chalk reflects his intimate knowledge of elegant materials and costumes, made famous in his print series the Figures de modes (Figures of Fashion). The spontaneity of the artist’s method is suggested in the pentimenti (changes to the composition) in the woman’s face.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
