Attributed to Pierre-Antoine QUILLARD (Paris 1700 - Lisbon 1733) Women bathing in a pool, surprised by a man Sanguine and black pencil. (Important restored lack of the upper left corner). In an antique carved and gilded wood frame. 36,5 x 18,2 cm Provenance: Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, March 23, 1982, no. 169, reproduced and described as an entourage by Watteau. Bibliography: - Pierre Rosenberg and Louis-Antoine Prat, Antoine Watteau, Catalogue raisonné des dessins, tome II, Milan, Éditions Leonardo Arte, no. R317, reproduced p. 1233. - M. Eidelberg, "Watteau and his circle / Drawings by the young Quillard", published on his website http://watteauandhiscircle.org/Quillards-drawings.htm, repr. fig.15. At the time of the London sale, the catalog states that an attribution to Quillard was suggested, and describes as Diana and Actaeon in contemporary costumes.