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A Bewigged Painter (Possibly Claude Audran), Seated at his Easel, Seen in Profile, c. 1709. Red chalk on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid card.
Red chalk on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid card · 20.1 × 13.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- A Bewigged Painter (Possibly Claude Audran), Seated at his Easel, Seen in Profile
- Artist
- Jean Antoine Watteau French, 1684-1721
- Date
- c. 1709
- Medium
- Red chalk on buff laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
- Dimensions
- 20.1 × 13.4 cm (7 15/16 × 5 5/16 in.)
- Credit line
- The Regenstein Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1684–1721
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.