Study of a Woman’s Head and Hands, Antoine Watteau, ca. 1717

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Study of a Woman’s Head and Hands, ca. 1717, Red and white chalk and graphite on off-white laid paper, Sheet: 7 1/2 x 5 in. (19 x cm), Drawings, Antoine Watteau (French, Valenciennes 1684–1721 Nogent-sur-Marne), Born in the northern French city of Valenciennes, Watteau followed a circuitous route from copyist to member of the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, where his morceau de réception was approved in 1717 in the newly created category of fêtes galantes

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