# Studies of Women's Heads [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [WATTEAU, Antoine]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Drawing ## Commentary the mass of his drawings, themselves varied beyond his paintings in their range of subject-matter, the fruit of incessant study and the product of marvellously matched eye and hand. Rarely did Watteau, it seems, make preparatory studies with particular paintings in mind; but he had assembled a whole visual vocabulary from which he could select what he required for any painting. The drawings show him keenly aware of life in the streets but even more of life in a more intimate way — the life particularly of women. A sheet of sketches may contain a series of women's heads \[34\] at different angles. ## Related artworks - [A Halt During the Chase]() - [A Seated Woman]() - [Actors from the Comédie Française]() - [Actors of the Comédie-Française]() - [An Embarrassing Proposal \(detail\)]() - [An Embarrassing Proposal]() - [Back of Woman]() - [Cajoler]() - [Ceres \(Summer\)]() - [Chinese Musician and Chinese Woman]() - [Chinese Woman of Kouei Tchéou]() - [Diana at her Bath]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()