Antoine Watteau (artist) French, 1684 - 1721 Italian Comedians, probably 1720 oil on canvas Overall: 63.8 x 76.2 cm (25 1/8 x 30 in.) framed: 94.3 x 106.4 cm (37 1/8 x 41 7/8 in.) Samuel H. Kress Collection 1946.7.9 |
1932 | Wildenstein, Georges. "L'Exposition de l'art français a Londres: Le XVIIIe siècle." Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 6th ser., vol. 7 (1932): repro. |
1944 | "Kress Makes Important Donation of French Painting to the Nation." Art Digest. vol. 18, no. 19 (1 August 1944): 5, repro. |
1944 | "The Almanac: French Paintings Given to the National Gallery." The Magazine Antiques. vol. XLVI, no. 5 (November 1944): 288 |
1944 | Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1944: 110, color repro. and cover. |
1944 | Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 61, repro. |
1945 | Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 158, repro. |
1946 | Favorite Paintings from the National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C.. New York, 1946: 51-54, color repro. |
1948 | Wildenstein and Company. French XVIII Century Paintings. New York, 1948: 4 |
1956 | Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1956: 46, repro. |
1959 | Cooke, Hereward Lester. French Paintings of the 16th-18th Centuries in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1959 (Booklet Number Four in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 26, color repro. |
1959 | Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 350, repro. |
1963 | Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 208, repro. |
1965 | Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 139 |
1966 | Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:302, color repro. |
1968 | European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 126, repro. |
1975 | European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 374, repro. |
1977 | Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 300-306, figs. 267-269. |
1978 | King, Marian. Adventures in Art: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1978: 66, pl. 38. |
1984 | Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 330, no. 438, color repro. |
1985 | European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 434, repro. |
1992 | National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 166, repro. |
1997 | Banu, Georges. Le Rideau ou la fêlure du monde, Paris, 1997, p. 137, repro. |