Le quatorze juillet – Bonne fête!
Antoine Watteau, Two Studies of the Head and Shoulders of a Little Girl, ca. 1717 (gift of J. P. Morgan, Jr., 1924)
As noted on the Morgan’s website, this fall the New York library and museum will host an exhibition of over eighty exceptional works on paper in conjunction with Rococo and Revolution: Eighteenth-Century French Drawings. Artists featured will include Antoine Watteau, Jacques-Louis David, François Boucher, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Claude Gillot, Nicolas Lancret, Hubert Robert, Pierre-Paul Prud’hon, Anne-Louis Girodet, and Pierre-Narcisse Guérin.
The exhibition runs from October 2, 2009 until January 3, 2010.
Enfilade 
It seems that NYC is going to have quite the 18th-century autumn! The exhibition “Watteau, Music, and Theater,” will be on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art September 22 – November 29, 2009