The Dreamer (painting)

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The Dreamer
fr: La Rêveuse
La rêveuse - Watteau - Art Institute of Chicago.jpg
ArtistAntoine Watteau
Yearc. 1712–1717
See § Provenance and dating
CatalogueH 45; G 88; DV 166; R 100; HA 145; EC 165; RM 120; RT 79
Mediumoil on panel
Dimensions23.2 cm × 17 cm (9.1 in × 6.7 in)
LocationArt Institute, Chicago
Accession1960.305

The Dreamer (La Rêveuse) is an oil on panel painting of c. 1712–1717 in the Art Institute, Chicago, by the French Rococo artist Antoine Watteau. The painting is a single-figure, full-length composition that shows a seated young woman amid a landscape, dressed in somewhat an exotic attire consisting of long red gown with fur garment and white bonnet; it is a recurring subject that is also present in numerous paintings and drawings by Watteau such as The Coquettes, dit Actors of the Comédie-Française. There were attempts to identify the sitter of the painting, who was notably thought to be Watteau's contemporary, the Comédie-Française actress Charlotte Desmares.

In the early 18th century, The Dreamer belonged to the Abbé Pierre-Maurice Haranger, canon at the Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois who was one of Watteau's closest friends. During two centuries, the painting passed through various private collections, until coming into possession of the art dealer and connoisseur Georges Wildenstein, who sold it to the Art Institute of Chicago in 1960.

Exhibition history[]

List of major exhibitions featuring the work
Year Title Location Cat. no.
1874 Ouvrages de peinture exposés au profit de la colonisation de l’Algérie par les Alsaciens-Lorrains au Palais de la Présidence ou Corps législatif… Société de protection des alsaciens et lorrains demeurés français, Paris 526
1883–1884 L’Art du XVIIIe siècle Galerie Georges Petit, Paris 145
1943 Fashion in Headdress 1450 - 1943 Wildenstein & Company Building, New York City 36
1956 De Watteau a Prud’hon Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris 95
1959 Age of Elegance: The Rococo and its Effect Museum of Art, Baltimore 35
1975 The Age of Louis XV: French Painting 1710-1774 Museum of Art, Toledo 120
1976 Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago Art Institute, Chicago 2
1984–1985 Watteau 1684–1721 National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin P. 26
General references: Grasselli, Rosenberg & Parmantier 1984, p. 306, Wise & Warner 1996, p. 170.

Further reading[]

  • Adhémar, Hélène (1950). Watteau; sa vie, son oeuvre (in French). Includes "L’univers de Watteau", an introduction by René Huyghe. Paris: P. Tisné. p. 219; pl. 77; cat. no. 145. OCLC 853537.
  • Boerlin-Brodbeck, Yvonne (1973). Antoine Watteau und das Theater (Ph.D. dissertation) (in German). Basel: Universität Basel. pp. 171, 176, 318 n. 435. OCLC 1965328.
  • Börsch-Supan, Helmut (2000). Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721. Meister der französischen Kunst (in German). Köln: Könemann. p. 75; fig. 64. ISBN 3-8290-1630-1. OCLC 925262301.
  • Camesasca, Ettore (1971). The Complete Painting of Watteau. Classics of the World's Great Art. Introduction by John Sutherland. New York: Harry N. Abrams. p. 115, cat. no. 165. ISBN 0810955253. OCLC 143069 – via the Internet Archive.
  • Dacier, Émile; Vuaflart, Albert (1922). Jean de Julienne et les graveurs de Watteau au XVIII-e siècle. III. Catalogue (in French). Paris: M. Rousseau. p. 82, cat. no. 166. OCLC 1039156495.
  • Ferré, Jean, ed. (1972). Watteau (in French). Madrid: Éditions Athena. vol. 1, pp. 206–207, 214; vol. 4, pp. 1111, 1120. OCLC 906101135.
  • Fourcaud, Louis de (November 1904). "Antoine Watteau: scenes et figures galantes". La Revue de l'art ancien et moderne (in French). 16 (92): 341–356 – via the Internet Archive.
  • Goncourt, Edmond de (1875). Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé d'Antoine Watteau (in French). Paris: Rapilly. p. 82, cat. no. 88. OCLC 1041772738 – via the Internet Archive.
  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan; Rosenberg, Pierre; Parmantier, Nicole; et al. (1984). Watteau, 1684-1721 ; National Gallery of Art, June 17—September 23, 1984; Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, October 23, 1984—January 28, 1985; Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, February 22—May 26, 1985 (PDF). Washington: National Gallery of Art. ISBN 0-89468-074-9. OCLC 557740787 – via the National Gallery of Art archive.
  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan (1987). The Drawings of Antoine Watteau: Stylistic Development and Problems of Chronology (Ph.D. dissertation). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University. p. 208, fig. 227. OCLC 1110196330.
  • Hédouin, P. (November 30, 1845). "Watteau: catalogue de son oeuvre". L'Artiste (in French). pp. 78–80 – via Gallica. p. 78, cat. no. 45CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  • Hédouin, P. (1856). Mosaïque. Peintres, musiciens, littérateurs, artistes dramatiques à partir du 15e siècle jusqu'à nos jours (in French). Paris: Heugel. p. 98, cat. no. 45. OCLC 1157159285 – via the Internet Archive.
  • Herold, Jacques; Vuaflart, Albert (1929). Jean de Julienne et les graveurs de Watteau au XVIII-e siècle. I. Notices et documents biographiques (in French). Paris: M. Rousseau. pp. 117–118, 264. OCLC 1039157338.
  • Mollett, John William (1883). Watteau. Illustrated Biographies of the Great Artists. London: S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. p. 66. OCLC 557720162 – via the Internet Archive.
  • (1964). Ватто и его произведения в Эрмитаже (Watteau et son œuvre à l'Ermitage) [Watteau and His Works in the Hermitage] (in Russian). Leningrad: Sovetskiy hudozhnik. OCLC 67871342.
  • Nemilova, I. S. (1989) [first published in 1973]. Загадки старых картин [Enigmas of Old Masters] (in Russian) (3rd ed.). Moscow: Izobrazitel'noe iskusstvo. ISBN 5-85200-017-5. OCLC 909190011.
  • Posner, Donald (1984). Antoine Watteau. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 47, 256, fig. 39. ISBN 0-8014-1571-3. OCLC 10736607 – via the Internet Archive.
  • Réau, Louis (1928–1930). "Watteau". In Dimier, Louis (ed.). Les peintres français du XVIII-e siècle: Histoire des vies et catalogue des œuvres (in French). 1. Paris: G. Van Oest. pp. 38–39, cat. no. 100. OCLC 564527521.
  • Roland Michel, Marianne (1980). Antoine Watteau: das Gesamtwerk (in German). Translated from the French by Rudolf Kimmig. Frankfurt: Ullstein. p. 44, cat. no. 120. ISBN 3-548-36019-X. OCLC 69202887.
  • Roland Michel, Marianne (1984). Watteau: un artiste au XVIII-e siècle. Paris: Flammarion. pp. 156–157; ill. 142. ISBN 0862940494. OCLC 417153549.
  • Temperini, Renaud (2002). Watteau. Maîtres de l'art (in French). Paris: Gallimard. pp. 84, 145; cat. no. 79. ISBN 9782070116867. OCLC 300225840.
  • Wildenstein, Georges (1920). Lancret. Paris: G. Servant. p. 117; cat. no. 704; fig. 202. OCLC 1088910286 – via the Internet Archive.
  • Wise, Susan; Warner, Malcolm (1996). French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in the Art Institute of Chicago: a Catalogue of the Collection. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, Princeton University Press. p. 169–174. ISBN 0865591377. OCLC 1244799003 – via the Internet Archive.

External links[]

  • The Dreamer at the Art Institute of Chicago official website
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