The Remedy
about 1716–1717
- Medium
- Red, black, and white chalk
- Dimensions
- 23.3 × 37.1 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-205838
A young woman lies on her bed, provocatively displayed in the nude, while a nurse leans attentively over her, ready to administer an enema. Jean-Antoine Watteau drew the scene with perfect mastery, using a subtle patterning of red, black and white chalk lines to create shadows and highlights. In drawings such as this one, he made this technique, known as *trois crayons*, famous. He sketched the nurse's head twice, trying two different angles over another study of the model's head. Watteau made this highly finished drawing in preparation for a painting now in the Norton Simon Museum. The severely trimmed painting lacks the nurse and severs the nude below her knees.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- about 1716–1717 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — drawings
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