The Worried Lover (L'Amante inquiète)[a] is an oil on panel painting in the Musée Condé, Chantilly, by the French Rococo artist Antoine Watteau.

[5] Given the appearance in the Recueil Jullienne and shared provenance, some authors considered both paintings to be pendants;[6] in contrary to that point, Pierre Rosenberg stated that these were likely brought together in the Abbé's collection.

[8] In the 1780s, The Worried Lover resurfaced in the collection of Antoine Claude Chariot (1733-1815), the commissaire-priseur du Châtelet; along with another Watteau painting in the Chariot collection, The Chord, it was lot 44 sold at auction for 221 livres in January 1788 to the painter and art dealer Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun (1748-1813), the husband of the prominent portrait painter Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun.

[13] in a 1912 album and catalogue, the German historian Ernst Heinrich Zimmermann [de] placed it to c. 1717, the year Watteau completed the Louvre version of The Embarkation for Cythera.

[14] In the 1950 catalogue raisonné, the Louvre staff curator Hélène Adhémar listed the painting as a Spring-Autumn 1716 work;[15] in 1959, the painter and connoisseur Jacques Mathey had proposed a c. 1715 dating.