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Eye Candy for Today: Watteau chalk studies
// lines and colors
Two Studies of the Head and Shoulders of a Little Girl, Antoine Watteau
Black, red and white chalk on buff paper, roughy 7 x 10 inches (19 x 25 cm); in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum. Use the Zoom feature or download link.
Watteau was noted for his "trois crayon" drawings, in which black, red and white chalks are used on toned paper, usually buff or cream, to great effect in quickly rendering figures or faces.
Here, he has succinctly captured the likeness of his subject with gestural lines, a bit of hatching for shading and some quickly noted white highlights. For all of their simplicity, the drawings have a remarkable presence.
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