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Head of a Young Girl Turning toward the Right

1758?

attributed to François Hubert Drouais

(French, 1727–1775)

France, 18th century

Black chalk, with stumping

Support: Brown-beige laid paper

Sheet: 29.6 x 25 cm (11 5/8 x 9 13/16 in.)

Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.397

Location

not on view

Description

Although once attributed to the painter Louis Tocqué (1696-1772), this beautiful drawing of a young girl is closer to the work of another important portraitist of the 1700s, François-Hubert Drouais. The inscription at the lower left identifies the girl as a certain Marie-Thérèse, but this writing was probably added later, and we have no way of knowing for certain who she is.

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Inscription

lower left, in brown ink: [févrie?] / 1758 / marie theresse / agé de pres de 11 ans / des 11 ans

Provenance

Baderou, Paris, 1957 (according to 1979 sale cat.); Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Sonnenberg, New York; [their sale, Sotheby-Parke-Bernet, New York (5-9 June 1979), no. 85, repr. (as Louis Tocqué)]; purchased in 1979.

Citations

Vassar College. Centennial Loan Exhibition; Drawings & Watercolors from Alumnae and Their Families, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York [May 19-June 11, 1961. 1961. Mentioned: cat no. 64, Reproduced: cover

Sutton, Denys. France in the Eighteenth Century. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1968. Mentioned: cat. no. 663, p. 121

Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 9, p. 28-29

Exhibition history

Centennial Loan Exhibition: Drawings and Watercolors from Alumnae and Their Families, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, and tour (1961), no. 64 and cover (as Gabriel-Jacques de Saint-Aubin);

France in the Eighteenth Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London (1968), 121, no. 663 (as Louis Tocqué).

French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001); Dahesh Museum of Art (February 19-May 18, 2002).

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