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Two Studies of a Seated Woman
Also titled Twee studies van een zittende vrouw
Jean Antoine Watteau (Valenciennes, 1684–1721)
1709 - 1721
- Medium
- paper, chalk
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 202 mm x width 339 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
Taking advantage of the sheet’s horizontal format, Watteau drew the same woman twice, shifting only his viewpoint and distance from the model. The complex folds of her dress are executed in a great economy of means – with nervous hatching and blank reserves. Watteau made hundreds of similar figure studies, which he often reused in his paintings.
