One of the six drawings by Antoine Watteau in the Hermitage - in addition to a good selection of his small, intimate paintings - this landscape composition was created whilst the artist was staying with the collector and patron, Pierre Crozat. Watteau showed an avenue of trees leading to a small pavilion on the Crozat estate at Montmorency. Executed in a soft, sketchy style, the sheet creates the impression of a direct sketch from nature. The drawing was engraved by François Boucher for the anthology of engravings Figures de différent caractères, published in 1726-28 by Jean de Jullienne.
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Avenue in a Park
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red chalk
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21x17 cm
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Entered the Hermitge in 1862; handed over on the instruction of the Grand Marshal of the Court; formerly in the collection of Grassi
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ОР-11855
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