Landscape with a Cottage and Well
Medium
Red chalk. Framing lines in pen and brown ink. A strip of paper 1.1 cm. in height has been added at upper margin.
Dimensions
3 5/16 x 5 5/8 in. (8.4 x 14.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880
Accession Number
80.3.522
Tags
About the Artist
Antoine Watteau|Antoine Watteau|Anonymous, French, 18th century · 1684–1721
Jean-Antoine Watteau, born in 1684 in Valenciennes to a modest family—his father a roofer named Jean-Philippe Watteau—was the second of four sons who displayed an early passion for art. After initial apprenticeship under local painter Jacques-Albert Gérin, he moved to Paris around 1702, working in workshops copying Flemish and Dutch genre scenes. By 1705, he entered the studio of Claude Gillot, ab...